Re: Mirrors et al. (was Re: New Markets)
Craig Sanders <cas@muffin.pronet.com> wrote:
> > > Hey, here's another idea:
> > >
> > > Set up a second anonymous ftp account, say "deb-anon". Make debian-1.1/
> > > unreadable by "anonymous" but readable by "deb-anon". Those who bother
> > > [...deleted...]
I wrote:
> > Then there'll be a bunch of mirrors who want to mirror the unstable
> > stuff, and they'll all need the same set up or we still wouldn't avoid
> > the problem.
Craig wrote:
> mirror preserves ownership & permissions, doesn't it?
It might if run by root, but I would have thought most were run in user
space? But my point was that people would want to obtain the unstable
version from their local mirror site, so that to continue the protection,
every mirror site carrying the unstable stuff would also need a second
anon-ftp account for this purpose, which is hardly practical.
Warwick
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