Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch on Savannah

[Mikhael Goikhman]

On 10 Dec 2005 14:13:13 -0500, Michael J. Flickinger wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:45 am, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> >
> > I would really appreciate having a real shell account instead, a-la
> > SourceForge. With access to the web pages too. We needed to setup an
> > external arch-to-cvs gateway just to edit the web pages, this is painful.
> 
> Due to an extremely paranoid security model at Savannah, we won't be
> offering shell accounts.
> 
> What exactly do you mean by web pages, I find this slightly ambiguous?
> Are you referring to project's webpages at Savannah

Yes, the web pages of Savannah projects are only editable using cvs.

> Basically, once something is committed to an archive, it's committed.
> 
> This does present one minor problem however, the uncacherev command
> will not work.

I don't really oppose this, if you say shell accounts are visionary.

> >   % tla abrowse address@hidden
> >   address@hidden
> >     arch-subsystem
> >   sftp status: Permission denied
> >
> > Is this intentional, or just something missing in the sshd hack? :)
> > Also, the archives are created without 'make-archive --listing' option.
> 
> Neither, this is due to the fact arch-subsystem is not publically
> readable, as it's a private archive.

Maybe tla should be enhanced then to support this case (some subdirectory
has no permission) and not die in the middle of 'tla abrowse address@hidden'.

> >   tla register-archive -f http://arch.sv.gnu.org/archives/administration/
> >   webdav error: 404 Not Found
> >
> > If the intention is to allow anonymous access to the archives, you may
> > add =meta-info/http-blows to existing archives and run 'archive-fixup'.

I see that you converted all non-administration archives to publicly
accessible now. Nice.

Regards,
Mikhael.