Re: [Savannah-help-public] GRUB snapshot

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:13:27PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Thursday 31 January 2008 20:25, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:39:16PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 21:57, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:15:54PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > We have a request about making a nightly snapshot for GNU
> > > > > GRUB. Could you help us?
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > For effiency reasons, we disabled CVS tarballs in favor of rsync
> > > > read-only access.
> > > >
> > > > Is it enough for your needs?
> > >
> > > Hmm... I think people want to download a tarball via ftp or http. I don't
> > > know how to set it up with alpha.gnu.org, because uploading procedures
> > > require gpg signing. If the sysadmin accepts a gpg key with an empty
> > > password, it might be possible to automate the uploading, but... Do you
> > > have any idea?
> >
> > Maybe you can use the scp/sftp/rsync download area at Savannah :)
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/DownloadArea
> 
> Ah, I thought that this was only for non-GNU projects. Is it effective even 
> for official GNU projects?

Yes, the Savannah download area is available for all project types.
The ftp.gnu.org/alpha.gnu.org system is completely separate.

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Sylvain