setup HEAD changes

Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Sat May 18 20:30:00 GMT 2002


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




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