Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 20:08:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's time for 5.1-R bits Message-ID: <20030605200531.H37854@korben.in.tern> In-Reply-To: <3EDF7E79.3000501@freebsd.org> References: <3EDF7E79.3000501@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Scott Long wrote: > i386 and pc98 bits for 5.1-R are ready to go online. Alpha and sparc64 > will happen over the next 2 days. We are scheduled to make the > announcement and press release on Monday, June 9. So, it's time to > decide on how to push out the bits to the mirrors without allowing > public access, how to quickly grant public access, and what, if > anything, should be done about BitTorrent. Isn't it a little bit late for that release? > 1. Distributing to the mirrors. The easiest approach seems to be > to use a permission setting of 0660 on the files and 0770 on the > directories. However, this will exclude the second-tier mirrors > that mirror off of others using anonymous access. What should be > done about this? Hmmm... running a second dedicated rsyncd on a different port, where only mirrors have access to and which runs as a different user? > 2. Granting anonymous access. If I publish an exact time, will > everyone be able to tweak their mirrors by hand? If not, will > rsync'ing the permission change be fast enough and not eat up too > much bandwidth? I guess that shouldn't be a problem. regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/
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