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Date:      Sun, 1 Jun 2003 22:06:28 +0000
From:      Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is>
To:        hubs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Coordinating and distributing the release
Message-ID:  <20030601220628.GC52089@isnic.is>
In-Reply-To: <20030531213844.D591@korben.in.tern>
References:  <3ED8C082.1080405@btc.adaptec.com> <20030531213844.D591@korben.in.tern>

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On Sat, 31 May 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote:

> I guess so. The RedHat mirrors use this scheme. They rsync from one master
> server, where you have to be registered, and they set their directory
> permissions to 0700 and flip the bit when the release is out. (The exact
> time when this will happen is announced on the mailing list.) Of course,
> this only works if the owner of the files is different from the ftpd user.

This works for RedHat as they use rsync only, will cvsup save the permissions
the same way as rsync does for us that use cvsup for mirroring?

If I remember correctly the answer to that question is no, so that would make
this impossible.

/Oli

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Olafur Osvaldsson
Systems Administrator
Internet a Islandi hf.
Tel:   +354 525-5291
Email: oli@isnic.is



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