Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] http://ftp.gnu.org/savannah/cvs/

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:53:48PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> We received a note on webmasters about
> http://ftp.gnu.org/savannah/cvs/, which was the nightly "latest" builds.
> Now dated 2003.
> 
> I imagine that this was a process that went away when sysadmin shut down
> general access to the machine.  It looks to me like there is nothing
> recent under http://ftp.gnu.org/savannah and it could all be
> removed/archived.  ?

This indeed dates from the Savannah compromise fall of 2003.

Archiving was already partially done for
http://ftp.gnu.org/savannah/files/ because those were not
signed/trusted, yet still mirrored automatically.

I guess something similar can be done for the rest of the files.

> Are there "latest" cvs tarballs built on savannah for gnu projects?
> (Not that this really matters, I'm just asking for my own info.)

No, instead you have rsync read-only access to the CVS repository.

-- 
Sylvain