setup HEAD changes

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat May 18 20:21:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:13:10PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>Hi folk,
>	I've just commited a few major changes that I thought should be
>mentioned.
>
>Firstly, I've added the core for rsync support. The librsync library is
>not rsync compatible (yet). It is rproxy compatible should we add in the
>appropriate http logic. I probably won't do any more in either direction
>for now, but if someone where to make io_stream_rsync compilable and to
>interoperate at least at the uncompressed level with rsync servers,
>that'd be cool.

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...

cgf



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