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Re: source mgt. requirements solicitation

From: =?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= <brane at xbc dot nu>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:09:56 +0100
Subject: Re: source mgt. requirements solicitation
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212092308010.26183-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>

Joseph S. Myers wrote:

>On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Walter Landry wrote:
>
>  
>
>>arch doesn't interact at all with root.  The remote repositories are
>>all done with sftp, ftp, and http, which is as secure as those servers
>>are.
>>    
>>
>
>Is this - for anonymous access - _plain_ HTTP, or HTTP + WebDAV + DeltaV
>which svn uses?  One problem there was with SVN - it may have been fixed
>by now, and a fix would be necessary for it to be usable for GCC - was its
>use of HTTP and HTTPS (for write access); these tend to be heavily
>controlled by firewalls and the ability to tunnel over SSH (with just that
>one port needing to be open) would be necessary.  "Transparent" proxies
>may pass plain HTTP OK, but not the WebDAV/DeltaV extensions SVN needs.
>

There is now a new repository access layer in place that can be easily
piped over SSH and doesn't require Apache on the server side. It's not
as well tested yet, of course.


-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane@xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/

References:
- Re: source mgt. requirements solicitation
  - From: Joseph S. Myers

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