# Place to manually upload old releases?

**URL:** <https://forum.graphviz.org/t/place-to-manually-upload-old-releases/241>\
**Category:** Dev\
**Created:** [July 5, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/place-to-manually-upload-old-releases/241 "2020-07-05T07:02:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![magjac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/graphviz/user_avatar/forum.graphviz.org/magjac/32/16_2.png) [@magjac](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/magjac)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/place-to-manually-upload-old-releases/241/1 "2020-07-05T07:02:47Z")

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This is a continuation of [Windows Packages download broken (#1758) · Issues · graphviz / graphviz · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/issues/1758#note_373700675).

> [@ellson](#):
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> We can talk about this some more if you need, but in my mind the Packages/ tree was to be solely maintained by the deploy process from .gitlab-ci.yml. If we mix in manual operations then I think there is a danger of losing control.
> 
> I saw the Archive/ upload as a one time event.
> 
> I was hoping to leave [www2.graphviz.org](http://www2.graphviz.org) as basically a hands off automated  
> system.

@Ellson I wasn’t aware of this. I found the binaries also in [https://www2.graphviz.org/Archive/graphviz/stable/windows/](https://www2.graphviz.org/Archive/graphviz/stable/windows/). Maybe I should remove the copies I uploaded to [Index of /Packages/stable/windows/10/msbuild/Release/Win32](https://www2.graphviz.org/Packages/stable/windows/10/msbuild/Release/Win32/) then and instead refer to the this place?

OTOH, the `Archive` is very disorganized and perhaps not something we want to expose to users? In that case we would need another place for manual uploads. Not that I expect this to happen often, but we e.g. have a request for the 2.38 source code packages in [Where to download graphviz 2.38.0? (#1350) · Issues · graphviz / graphviz · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/issues/1350)

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**Author:** ![magjac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/graphviz/user_avatar/forum.graphviz.org/magjac/32/16_2.png) [@magjac](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/magjac)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/place-to-manually-upload-old-releases/241/2 "2020-07-05T11:23:27Z")

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BTW @Ellson It’s no longer possible to access the top level `Packages` directory through [https://www2.graphviz.org/Packages/](https://www2.graphviz.org/Packages/) which was working before. I get:

```auto

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /Packages/ on this server.

```

[https://www2.graphviz.org/Packages/stable/](https://www2.graphviz.org/Packages/stable/) and [https://www2.graphviz.org/Packages/development/](https://www2.graphviz.org/Packages/development/) are still accessible.

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**Author:** ![Ellson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/graphviz/user_avatar/forum.graphviz.org/ellson/32/19_2.png) [@Ellson](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/Ellson)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/place-to-manually-upload-old-releases/241/3 "2020-07-05T14:22:36Z")

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Somehow Packages/ had lost read permission.

I don’t mind if you manually tidy Archive/ a little, but please don’t delete any files

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**Author:** ![magjac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/graphviz/user_avatar/forum.graphviz.org/magjac/32/16_2.png) [@magjac](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/magjac)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/place-to-manually-upload-old-releases/241/4 "2020-07-16T11:44:06Z")

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I did:

```auto
[magjac@www2 Archive]$ pwd
/var/www/html/Archive
magjac@www2 Archive]$ sudo mv graphviz/* .
[magjac@www2 Archive]$ sudo rmdir graphviz/

```

The Windows installer for version 2.38 is now available at: [https://www2.graphviz.org/Archive/stable/windows/graphviz-2.38.msi](https://www2.graphviz.org/Archive/stable/windows/graphviz-2.38.msi)