On Tuesday 27 March 2007, bret curtis wrote: > Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 19:44 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> On Monday 26 March 2007, bret curtis wrote: > >>> Only wimps use tape backup: *real **men* just upload their important > >>> stuff on *ftp*, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- LT :1996 > > > > We can't do a full raw mirror. There are restricted things in CVS. A > > raw copy of the anonymous cvs is about as close as we could do to this. > > I personally see little to no benefit in the additional overhead in > > doing that. But if you can make a case to say robbat2 and pylon for why > > this would be useful to our community then I'm sure we could open up a > > rsync of the raw anoncvs mirror. > > Aside from username and passwords, is Gentoo not so transparent that we > can't do a master dump of our collective work and allow it to be > mirrored in some fashion by people willing to do so?
that's pretty much what he's referring to ... at the moment, we store things like full contact information about each dev in cvs and that isnt exported to the anonymous server -mike
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