[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Reinhard Zierke <address@hidden>] Re: AUC TeX changes

[Mathieu Roy]

According to me, rsync or http is a good possibility to maintains
mirrors.

I do not really understand why it's said that "HTTP mirroring
basically". I used software like httrack several times succesfully,
and it's free software. Also, wget is generally doing it works
correctly. For instance I tried 
   wget --mirror http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/auctex/beta.pkg/
and the result seems fine. Adding two option more should be fine.

Anonymous ftp is not possible since there's no ftp server running and
installing one would mean spending more time to deal with security
issues without features additions.

Anonymous rsync is as far I know not currently available and I do not
know implications of this (and so, whether it's feasable or not).


The easier solution would be trying http mirroring. If it proves to
not working, it would be a good argument to work on anonymous rsync
here on savannah.gnu.org.

But it is feasible with ease to directly add anonymous rsync (and
without too many security implications ), we'll surely add it. Can
someone give details? (I'll have free time on the beginning of the
next week). 





address@hidden (David Kastrup) said:

> Hello,
> 
> I would want to have a good possibility to mirror from the download
> area for the "nongnu/auctex" project.  I attach a mail from the CTAN
> maintainer where he says that doing this from http is not feasible
> (and indeed, my own attempt with wget got down very strange things).
> Is there a possibility via anonymous ftp or anonymous rsync?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:41:35 +0100
> From: Reinhard Zierke <address@hidden>
> To: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: AUC TeX changes
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> David,
> 
> > CTAN provides a download area for AUC TeX at CTAN:support/auctex.
> > AUC TeX has had a change of maintainer and development site.  As a
> > result, the directory at CTAN is quite outdated.
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out.  AUC TeX is important enough to always
> carry current versions on CTAN.
> 
> > I would propose the following:
> > 
> > Move the directory to something like support/auctex/oldstuff and
> > delete every file that belongs to AUC TeX proper (the various .tar.gz
> > archives an links).
> > 
> > Then copy the following directories over:
> > 
> > http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/auctex/beta.pkg/11.14
> >  ...
> >
> > Please contact me if you are in doubt about anything, or would want
> > me to do the uploads to incoming instead of giving pointers.
> 
> I do not like this at all.  HTTP mirroring basically doesn't work.
> Manual updating, either by us or by you uploading to us is way too much
> work and error prone.
> 
> Do you have connections to savannah.nongnu.org?  Can you ask them to
> allow FTP access for mirroring?
> 
> Reinhard Zierke
> for the CTAN team
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