From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 20:28:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB89337B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD7143FCB for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:28:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h5D3SLbr007525; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:28:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5D3SKAV007524; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:28:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:28:20 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20030613032820.GC6359@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20030612180244.GG21995@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20030612211821.GQ21995@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The recent thread... handling new releases X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 03:28:23 -0000 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 07:17:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > You just need some automatic way to do it for any transfer > mechanism. Eg, > > 1) rsync (or otherwise copy) some small directory which has > the meta-info on moving files around. > 2) locally process the information found in that directory. > 3) rsync (or otherwise copy) the larger repositories. > > (the above is easy for any "pull" strategy, at least. Doing it > via a "push" strategy might take a bit more thought) Please don't take this as me saying "No" or that this is a really bad idea. Please simply take this as "food for thought" in case we do move forward with this idea. You have probably thought about this already. IMO this would need to be implemented VERY carefully. With my "Paranoid Systems Administrator" hat on what this scenario brings to mind is email reading clients that allow attachments to run stuff on the local machine, particularly because of (2) above. The folks who decided to let the email clients do that had wonderful new features in mind when they made that decision but that mechanism has been used for a lot of things I'm sure they never intended. With much care this could definitely be implemented in a reasonable way I'm sure but it's not quite as simple a problem as it first appears. And for it to have the desired effect *everyone* would need to be doing it. At this point in trying to find my way around that sounds very difficult. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |