please test: Secure ports tree updating
Peter Jeremy
PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au
Wed Oct 27 12:48:39 PDT 2004
On Tue, 2004-Oct-26 20:58:54 +0100, Colin Percival wrote:
>CVSup is slow, insecure, and a memory hog. However, until now
>it's been the only option for keeping an up-to-date ports tree,
...
>
>To provide a secure, lightweight, and fast alternative to CVSup,
>I've written portsnap.
It sounds like you've re-invented CTM rather than a CVSup replacement.
Would you care to provide a comparison of portsnap with CTM? Based on
your description, the differences are:
- portsnap uses HTTP, CTM uses either FTP or mail.
- portsnap is always signed, CTM is only signed via mail.
- CTM is part of the base system
- ports-cur CTM deltas are currently generated every 8 hours
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Peter Jeremy
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