Without knowing exactly what his concern is, there's no way we can address it (by seeing if some security patch is needed, by checking and possibly changing some setting, or by explaining something he is misunderstanding).
On the other hand, the cvs method accesses the identical package collection (technically, CVS is the server to which packages are committed, and rsync is just a read-only clone of the latest CVS revisions). Maybe that would suit the sysadmin. But again, we don't know what his hot-button issue is to know what will suffice:( As of recent versions of fink, the selfupdate methods are pluggable with a pretty simple API. One could write a perl module that grabbed the latest files by some other approveable method from a machine that cloned the package collection and served it appropriately. Or else, given that the whole thing is just a pile of text files, someone could make a tarball of a snapshot of them and manually transfer that across the threshold of the sysadmin periodically. But still those files would have to come from *somewhere* by *some method*, and we don't know whether the problem is "rsync pulling files into his realm" or "rsync anywhere in the chain" or is more general than that... dan On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:05:14PM +0200, Felix Frolow wrote: > I advise PhD students in institution, other than place I am affiliated > with. > In my institution I have no problem to upgrade relevant software using > FINK in rsync mode. > Institution were I advise PhD students ABSOLUTELY refuses to activate > rsync approach > to the FINK sites. Their computer center claims major security > violation related to rsync. Could some one to > advise. > > Thank you in advance > > This message was BCC to the institution > > Dr Felix Frolow > Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology > Department of Molecular Microbiology > and Biotechnology > Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel > > Acta Crystallographica D, co-editor > > e-mail: mbfro...@post.tau.ac.il > Tel: ++972 3640 8723 > Fax: ++972 3640 9407 > Cellular: ++972 547 459 608 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
