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Date: | Sat, 18 May 2002 23:33:47 -0400 |
From: | Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> |
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To: | cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: setup HEAD changes |
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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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