[Savannah-hackers] [support #102680] Write-access to CVS via rsync or similar

[Sylvain Beucler]

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URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailitem&item_id=102680>
Project: Savannah Administration
Submitted by: Simon Josefsson
On: Sun 12/28/2003 at 11:15

Category:  None
Priority:  1 - Later
Severity:  3 - Ordinary
Resolution:  None
Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  Beuc
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Status:  Open


Summary:  Write-access to CVS via rsync or similar

Original Submission:  I'd like to keep the real CVS repository for some 
projects on my local machine, but take advantage of your facilities to allow 
others to access the CVS versions.  Do you support this?  Are there any 
software that simplify this?

IMHO, for me, the simplest would be if I could get rsync over ssh write-access 
to the CVS root of my projects.  Is  this possible?

Later: Rudy Gevaert said it is not currently possible, hence I'm opening this 
support request.

Follow-up Comments
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Date: Sat 03/13/2004 at 16:48       By: Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
I think the admins' strategy is not to give accounts - only controled access. 
So:
- it may be possible to set up a controled rsync access just like a controled 
CVS access, but given the huge amount of time the later is currently requiring, 
there is no hope this can be done before some months, if ever :/
- there is no rsync daemon at fencepost, and we do not have access there, it is 
a different machine. This also means cron jobs do not have a ssh account to 
connect with at fencepost.

There could be some other solutions, eg uploading a tarball with the latest 
changes in your download area. However, I suggest we think about it later - 
again - because sysadmins are currently concentrating on some remaining issues 
at Savannah.

I set this request priority to 'Later', so it is still open, and I will check 
with sysadmins as soon as they are done.

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Date: Sat 03/06/2004 at 19:10       By: Simon Josefsson <jas>
Sorry, that sould have been 'but the savannah system MIGHT already have access 
to it over ssh'.  I don't know whether you have access to fencepost too.

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Date: Sat 03/06/2004 at 19:07       By: Simon Josefsson <jas>
I wanted to use Savannah instead, to avoid having my CVS/rsync servers publicly 
visible (I don't have the man-power to keep track of security problems in 
ssh/rsync).  Write-access via rsync at savannah would be the simplest, then I 
can just sync my CVS repository with yours.  Perhaps I can set up something 
similar using some weird 'cvs admin' command, but it sounded like work when I 
had that idea initially.

Hm.  Can you rsync from fencepost.gnu.org?  I have ssh access to it, so I can 
copy my local repository to that machine, and then you could sync from it.  I 
don't think it runs a rsync server though, but the savannah system already have 
access to it over ssh (so you could use rsync over ssh).


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Date: Sat 03/06/2004 at 17:16       By: Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Forget what I said - anybody could publish his software on his website and then 
delete it. The policy is rather aimed at keeping sources available even when 
the developers stop working on them.

Anyway, we have 2 projects here that are synced hourly here with a 'pull' 
method. So if you can setup a rsync server where Savannah could get the 
sources, it should be possible. You then have to check with address@hidden

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Date: Thu 02/19/2004 at 20:55       By: Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Incidentally, this is not something SF supports, because their policy is to 
keep everything. It prevents a project to become proprietary and removing all 
traces of the old free code.
Just my 2c.












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