Am Freitag, dem 03. Nov 2006 schrieb Sylvain Beucler:

> We do not plan to support FTP as a download method, because we're
> thinking about mirrors and automatic/semi-automatic redirections to
> the nearest one. Technically it would be possible to do so with FTP in
> 'active' mode, but certainly less easily than with a small CGI script
> using Geo::IP ;)

Sounds good. So forget about FTP.

But I have another question: As I described earlier I use symlinks in my
download area to have static package names for the current version. 
Will that still work with the mirrors?

> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:28:18AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I think that it's a good move, *but* please keep comprehensive
> > instructions on how to GPG-sign the tarballs so that new users keep
> > signing them.
> 
> Will do :) We still considering signing necessary. It might be
> required if we setup mirrors, for example.

When someone has textfiles there, like READMEs or md5sum files, is it
okay to "clearsign" them and remove the extension .asc?

-- 
AKFoerster


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