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[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 10:53 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 10:39 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > 4. essentially this box will be for rsync/scp/sftp of files to a place
> > > where everyone can get to. Is there any other package that should be on
> > > here?
> > 
> > git would be nice, with the git server setup so that people can easily sync up 
> > a git repo to there or push via ssh to there and other people can get to it 
> > with git://
> > 
> > Hg is harder and maybe not possible.
> 
> Isn't the above what rsync is for? I guess I'm inclined to not have any
> scm - this is just a big box which serves files, statically, and does
> not open us up to that many attack vectors.

If we allow these, I'd also like to request bzr :-)

git, hg, and bzr can all be served directly over http.  I believe that
either sftp or rsync push is supported by all of them as well.  having a
server has several advantages:

1) Faster.  The server can optimize what it sends over the wire so
there's less data to transfer.  Also, it can perform some pieces of a
command on the server and send only the results.

2) Online browsing.  In some cases the server has a web interface built
in that makes it easy to view the source online.

3) Other features.  I don't know what other features exist for hg and
git (bzr is only about performance ATM) but things like repository
specific ACLs need server-side support to work (could be done with fs
ACLs if we have the ability to shell in.)

With that explanation out there, I think I'm inclined to agree with
Seth.  Let's keep fedorapeople simple unless we find our needs are
simply too big.

We might want to provide some client-side scripts to aid in working with
fedorapeople, though.  For instance, a script that maintains a yum repo
clientside and rsyncs it to fedorapeople would be nice.

-Toshio
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