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

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 03:12 pm, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> 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.
Ok, archives will now work with --listing on make-archive. :)

> >
> > 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'.
>
True, this would be a nice feature.

> > >   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.

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Michael J. Flickinger