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On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:44:41PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
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> Funy, I was just pondering that myself... is authenticated rsync |
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> really possible? |
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Yes, it has its own auth mechanism. We actually use it for some automated |
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cron jobs that we have. |
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> The only downside to this that I can see would be the lack of |
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> history... FEX an upgraded -rX ebuild breaks something, I could test |
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> against previous -rX's in turn to find out exactly which broke it, and |
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> other history like stuff. This may or may not be necessary/helpful, |
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> hard to say without it having happened :) |
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So, can other arch testers please pitch in with their $.02? If we gave you |
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rsync instead of CVS, would that be sufficient? Or do you need the |
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revision history, etc. of CVS? |
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And, any objections to a ~30 minute delay between CVS<->this solution? |
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--kurt |
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