Re: Debian Smart Upload Server
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > If the issue is with pull versus push, why not simply fix this by
> > adding some FTP upload hooks, or inotify-watching the upload dir?
> Whenever I've heard talk about this topic (smart protocol for Debian
> uploads), I've heard other issues mentioned. In particular, as an
> example, fast rejects, by getting the .changes file uploaded first, and
> some lightweight checks performed on it.
Still seems feasible with FTP or at HTTP to me. Consider that using a
custom protocol will prevent us from using modern protocol stacks,
standards tools, firewalling policies, intrusion detection systems and
what not. This is about pushing a .changes file and the files it
references to a server, this can reasonably be done with an existing
file transfer protocol.
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Loïc Minier
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