[Savannah-hackers] [ 101463 ] rsync gives permission denied

[nobody]

Support Request #101463, was updated on 2002-Oct-30 01:37
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Category: CVS
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Summary: rsync gives permission denied

By: yeupou
Date: 2002-Oct-30 20:40
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I set this request to someone else, that should normally be
aware of your plans.

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By: savannah.gnu.org
Date: 2002-Oct-30 20:34
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I was given the rsync command from one of you guys as it     
would put the least load on your servers (I cannot find the     
exact support request, but search for either ToPAS or POPA     
and you will find the exact support request - I think it 
was from your CVS-guru). This sounds     
fair as ToPAS check-outs _every_ _single_ _version_ of     
_every_ _single_ _file_ of _every_ _single_ _package_. This     
takes around 24 hours on 500 MHz using 100% CPU. We are, as    
you can see, not dealing with a normal CVS situation.    
      
Now I hope you agree that it is not efficient that I use      
remote CVS to do so many check-outs, but that it is far     
more efficient that I get an rsynced copy of /cvsroot which     
I can check out every version from locally (Usually the     
rsync takes 10 minutes).     
      
When I started ToPAS approximately 5 projects had the      
problem with missing read permission. But today it is a     
large part of Savannah.      
     
It still seems that the major part of cvsroot can be     
rsynced. So if you do not thing that rsync usage is granted  
to access the CVS-tree then I will assume that you consider  
it an error that I have read access to 1000+ project. If  
you still feel this is an error, then please    
consider the following:     
     
* Is protection against injustic software patent     
infringement worth anything to Savannah and its users?     
     
* What do you gain by making the rsync of cvsroot     
impossible? All the data are still available through CVS -     
however at a much higher CPU cost to you.     
   
I hope that I can convince you that you gain a lot by doing   
a very small thing: Giving me rsync-read access to the   
remaining projects.   
   
    

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