http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/b8b1cad3aacd changeset: 5550:b8b1cad3aacd user: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> date: Tue Sep 09 11:47:10 2014 -0400 summary: show how to purge CDN files: pep-0101.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/pep-0101.txt b/pep-0101.txt --- a/pep-0101.txt +++ b/pep-0101.txt @@ -439,6 +439,12 @@ checkout. The Doc's version_switcher.js script also needs to be updated. + ___ Note both the documentation and downloads are behind a caching CDN. If + you change archives after downloading them through the website, you'll + need to purge the stale data in the CDN like this: + + $ curl -X PURGE https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.5/Python-2.7.5.tar.xz + ___ For the extra paranoid, do a completely clean test of the release. This includes downloading the tarball from www.python.org. -- Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/peps