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Re: setup HEAD changes
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I have reservations about adding rsync support. This could easily cause
> people to start using cygwin.com for everything and ignoring mirrors
> since we allow anonymous rsync on sources.redhat.com.
:-(
>
> I guess we could have setup.exe deny access to sources.redhat.com IP
> address, though...
That will only work briefly. Eventually someone will strip out that
limitation, build a replacement, and post it on some website somewhere.
Better solution would be to disallow *anonymous* rsync to cygwin-ftp
repository. Those who need to rsync to cygwin-ftp can do it using
authentication.
--Chuck