Re: Getting Kawa CVS from behind a firewall

[Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>]

Per Bothner wrote:
>  > I can get around easily with OpenSSH, but there is no anonymous ssh
>  > for CVS at sources.redhat.com (nor is there self provisioning like
>  > there is for SourceForge or Savannah, AFAIK).
>
> I'm not sure what "self provisioning" refers to.  However, if moving the 
> repository over to gnu.org effectively solves the problem, that might be 
> worth considering.

People who sign up as SourceForge and Savannah users and who are added 
to a project as "developers" get ssh access to the server.  They can 
then access CVS with ssh which they can configure to run through a proxy 
to get through the firewall.

That might require you to add them as developers (but perhaps not for 
just read-only access to CVS since they should show up as "other" like 
anoncvs does).

> Perhaps if you posted instruction for how to use OpenSSH with some other 
> small non-Kawa Savannah project, Joerg and others in the same boat could 
> try that.  If it works, that's an argument for moving the repository.

I'm trying out Savannah's ssh now.  I'll you know how it goes (I'm 
waiting for the cron job to update my rsa key now).

> I could write a script to generate a nightly tar file, but I don't know 
> how to do that except on my home server box (bothner.com), and I really 
> don't want to have too many people downloading from that.

I could easily get that going on pagesmiths.com, and it is something I 
started to do a while ago (which isn't a problem since I'm well under my 
quota there).

I'ld rather use the SourceForge for downloads, but it doesn't look like 
there is a way to upload the files automatically (there's a whole 
"release" process which requires web form interaction).

We probably should work this (nightly cvs source tar balls) out one way 
or another because even if we set up some ssh method, it would be more 
complicated than most folks would want to fiddle with.

Jim
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