[Python-Dev] alternate pserver access for python CVS? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. L�wis" martin@v.loewis.de
Sat, 05 Jul 2003 13:38:54 +0200

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Just a thought, not sure whether it's even possible (being no CVS expert): wouldn't it be possible to setup a caching CVS proxy on a more reliable machine, e.g. the python.org one ?

Not trivially. To set up a CVS mirror, you need to get access to the repository files - you can't download the entire repository over the CVS protocol (atleast not trivially).

To set-up a CVS proxy, one would either need to use pserver or ssh forwarding. However, there is no point in doing so: the proxy would have to forward each request, anyway, as it couldn't know whether the repository has changed behind it.

In either case, some developer probably would need to deposit the SF password or SSH private key on python.org, which is also undesirable.

Regards, Martin