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Re: setup HEAD changes

From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 23:33:47 -0400
Subject: Re: setup HEAD changes
References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C6112@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au> <20020519032130.GA3695@redhat.com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I have reservations about adding rsync support.  This could easily cause
> people to start using cygwin.com for everything and ignoring mirrors
> since we allow anonymous rsync on sources.redhat.com.

:-(

> 
> I guess we could have setup.exe deny access to sources.redhat.com IP
> address, though...

That will only work briefly.  Eventually someone will strip out that 
limitation, build a replacement, and post it on some website somewhere.

Better solution would be to disallow *anonymous* rsync to cygwin-ftp 
repository.  Those who need to rsync to cygwin-ftp can do it using 
authentication.

--Chuck

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