Coordinating and distributing the release

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sat, 31 May 2003 10:13:16 -0600, Scott Long <scott_long at btc.adaptec.com> said:

> Can we just enable <user>:archive 0770 on the files/directories and have
> them safely propogate out to all of the mirrors that way, while still
> leaving them invisible to normal visitors?  I certainly do not want to
> exclude the secondary mirrors.

Not reliably, since users and groups are not standardized across all
the mirrors.  (For example, a 770-mode file on my mirror would only be
readable by members of group `mirror', which has only one member, the
user `mirror'.  rsyncd and cvsupd run under different users and
groups.)

However, I think it may well be good enough, and the intermediate
mirror operators can deal if you give them enough advance notice as to
how the release will be handled.

-GAWollman