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sr #102680: Write-access to CVS via rsync or similar

Submitter:  Simon Josefsson <jas>
Submitted:  Sun 28 Dec 2003 11:15:09 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  1 - Later
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Beuc
Operating System:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sat 13 Mar 2004 04:48:04 PM UTC, comment #5: 

I think the admins' strategy is not to give accounts - only controled access. So:
- it may be possible to set up a controled rsync access just like a controled CVS access, but given the huge amount of time the later is currently requiring, there is no hope this can be done before some months, if ever :/
- there is no rsync daemon at fencepost, and we do not have access there, it is a different machine. This also means cron jobs do not have a ssh account to connect with at fencepost.

There could be some other solutions, eg uploading a tarball with the latest changes in your download area. However, I suggest we think about it later - again - because sysadmins are currently concentrating on some remaining issues at Savannah.

I set this request priority to 'Later', so it is still open, and I will check with sysadmins as soon as they are done.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Sat 06 Mar 2004 07:10:44 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Sorry, that sould have been 'but the savannah system MIGHT already have access to it over ssh'.  I don't know whether you have access to fencepost too.

Simon Josefsson <jas>
Sat 06 Mar 2004 07:07:47 PM UTC, comment #3: 

I wanted to use Savannah instead, to avoid having my CVS/rsync servers publicly visible (I don't have the man-power to keep track of security problems in ssh/rsync).  Write-access via rsync at savannah would be the simplest, then I can just sync my CVS repository with yours.  Perhaps I can set up something similar using some weird 'cvs admin' command, but it sounded like work when I had that idea initially.

Hm.  Can you rsync from fencepost.gnu.org?  I have ssh access to it, so I can copy my local repository to that machine, and then you could sync from it.  I don't think it runs a rsync server though, but the savannah system already have access to it over ssh (so you could use rsync over ssh).

Simon Josefsson <jas>
Sat 06 Mar 2004 05:16:14 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Forget what I said - anybody could publish his software on his website and then delete it. The policy is rather aimed at keeping sources available even when the developers stop working on them.

Anyway, we have 2 projects here that are synced hourly here with a 'pull' method. So if you can setup a rsync server where Savannah could get the sources, it should be possible. You then have to check with rao@gnu.org.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Thu 19 Feb 2004 08:55:33 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Incidentally, this is not something SF supports, because their policy is to keep everything. It prevents a project to become proprietary and removing all traces of the old free code.
Just my 2c.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Sun 28 Dec 2003 11:15:09 AM UTC, original submission:  

I'd like to keep the real CVS repository for some projects on my local machine, but take advantage of your facilities to allow others to access the CVS versions.  Do you support this?  Are there any software that simplify this?

IMHO, for me, the simplest would be if I could get rsync over ssh write-access to the CVS root of my projects.  Is  this possible?

Later: Rudy Gevaert said it is not currently possible, hence I'm opening this support request.

Simon Josefsson <jas>

 

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