setting up private mirror

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Thu Sep 3 01:50:00 GMT 2015


Greetings, Chris Louden!

> I'm currently searching the mailing list archive as well as google but
> I thought I would ask out right aw well.. I'm looking to implement a
> private Cygwin mirror. The process seem fairly straight forward
> setting up an apache instance and rsycing twice a day. However our
> NetSec folks have asked is there is any way I can sync the local repo
> via an authenticated or encrypted method. I guess to rule out a man in
> the middle scenario. If anyone has done anything similar I would
> appreciate the feedback.

Probably.
You could get setup.ini from some secure source and check hashes of the
packages after sync.
I didn't check if there's any available, but supposedly there should be at
least one.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, September 3, 2015 04:45:27

Sorry for my terrible english...


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