Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
Hi,
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Advantages: - Changes are transmitted using diffs (httpup: whole files)
Well, also clients don't have to run any servers at all. There is a central location for all the ports (fewer downtime with people rebooting their boxes, not everyone has dedicated servers)
Disadvantages: - Requires running a service (rsyncd)
Yeah, but on the server
- Configurations looks rather complicated
It's not really :)
- If a repo maintainer decides to just not update his repo anymore, we have to detect that he's not accessing our repo anymore; this is a bit harder in a "push" model than it is in a "pull" model (as the httpup ideas implement).
Yeah, that's an issue... How is it solved now?
- To merge those ports into one collection, you'll need another script (I don't think rsync does this); therefore, you'll end up with more components to maintain (rsync, script), which run independently, which means that you have to manually ensure that there are no "commits" to the collection while merging it (I know this is simple to do, but it will cause some disk load).
Actually, I didn't think we would merge them into one collection. -Victor