Re: [Savannah-users] Re: Replacing FTP queue with SFTP?

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:53:36PM +0100, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
> Am Freitag, dem 03. Nov 2006 schrieb Sylvain Beucler:
> 
> > We do not plan to support FTP as a download method, because we're
> > thinking about mirrors and automatic/semi-automatic redirections to
> > the nearest one. Technically it would be possible to do so with FTP in
> > 'active' mode, but certainly less easily than with a small CGI script
> > using Geo::IP ;)
> 
> Sounds good. So forget about FTP.
> 
> But I have another question: As I described earlier I use symlinks in my
> download area to have static package names for the current version. 
> Will that still work with the mirrors?
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:28:18AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > I think that it's a good move, *but* please keep comprehensive
> > > instructions on how to GPG-sign the tarballs so that new users keep
> > > signing them.
> > 
> > Will do :) We still considering signing necessary. It might be
> > required if we setup mirrors, for example.
> 
> When someone has textfiles there, like READMEs or md5sum files, is it
> okay to "clearsign" them and remove the extension .asc?

Using mirrors is currently nothing but a vague plan.
Your points are to be taken into account indeed :)

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Sylvain