On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>>> How would you envision this capability being provided? I wouldn't want to,
>>> for example, just open up ftp write access to the distfiles server to
>>> anyone who asked for it.
>>
>> maybe for maintainers (or committers only)?
>>
>> and probably 'sftp' instead of 'ftp'
>>
>>> Would we make a web page where people can upload a distfile for a
>>> particular port?
>>
>> sure, that would work too.
>>
>> I would think people's mirrors would go in a user directory too (similar to
>> how the svn stuff worked) - so it would be obvious that it was a
>> maintainer/committer sourced distfile.
>
> In that case, this is sounding like a different and separate file hosting
> service we could provide, not to be thought of as part of the distfile mirror.
I don't have a preference for which machine it's hosted on - if we could make
use of one of the existing authentication mechanisms, though, that would be
great.
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Daniel J. Luke
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