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 :) -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ Savannah-users mailing list Savannah-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-users
