On Tue, April 10, 2007 11:32 am, Matthew Dillon wrote: > We could just distribute the CVS tree and write a front-end utility > in csh or sh that we distribute along with the rest of the system > to do the nitty gritty work of actually checking something out into > /usr/src. In fact, I think that would be preferable.
I am all for simple upgrades - the closer we can get it to a single button-push for obvious upgrades like 1.8->1.8.1, the happier I'd be. > My only worry is figuring out how to run the rsync daemon safely. > I'm a bit paranoid about running things on crater but I do agree > that we would have to run the master rsync daemon there. Is it feasible to run it in a vkernel? External bandwidth, rather than CPU or disk, is probably the choke point, so I would think there wouldn't be much of a tradeoff of performance vs. security.
