Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Web CVS server unavailable

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 04/21/2016 02:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> It is a very *heavy* file.  It took a significant amount of wait time
> on my browser for it to load.
[...]
> This makes me wonder how useful it is in the present state.  Are
> people really needing the entire state of the entire system all in one
> page?

A suggestion:

If this a file that is commonly updated (perhaps 
automatically/programmatically),
such as a list of available packages, perhaps consider putting it on the 
downloads server ?

Files can be uploaded with rsync/scp,
there's no versioning, and files will also be mirrored (usually within 24 
hours).

Example (a dummy file I just created):
   http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/guix/
   http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/guix/packages.html

   $ rsync rsync://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/guix/
   drwxrwsr-x          4,096 2016/04/21 14:57:21 .
   -rw-rw-r--             57 2016/04/21 14:55:01 packages.html

Access permissions to this directory are the same as commit-access to the guix 
repository, e.g.

   rsync -avhP LOCALFILE address@hidden:/srv/download/guix/


NOTE:
When visiting http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/guix/
you'll be redirected to one of the mirrors - which might not yet have the most 
up-to-date file.
to skip the redirection (not recommended), use  
http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/guix/ .


regards,
 - assaf