[Mageia-sysadm] [810] split subversion-tools in its own class, to prepare for svn mirror

Sun Jan 16 14:31:48 CET 2011

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 02:15:35PM +0100, root at mageia.org wrote:
+> Revision: 810
+> Author:   misc
+> Date:     2011-01-16 14:15:35 +0100 (Sun, 16 Jan 2011)
+> Log Message:
+> -----------
+> split subversion-tools in its own class, to prepare for svn mirror
+> 
+
+Since we still do not have any svn viewer system, I had a idea that
+would allow us to have one without sacrifiying security :
+- use a viewer with a readonly clone of svn.
+
+For example, we could use svnsync on alamut to copy the svn from valstar.
+( I tried svm, but it seems to be quite broken ). I have a module ready to 
+be committed for that.
+
+This way :
+- we have backups ( until someone do a full real backup system, and
+so until we have fiona )
+- someone compromissing the server cannot modify the svn ( as this is a copy )
+- we will have local access to the data
+  - full range of web interface ( and not just viewvc, even if I think it is fine )
+  - local access is faster than remote ( after testing viewvc )
+- the svn server will not be loaded with web request while at the same time 
+
+The only issue is the bin-repos svn repository. I am not sure that it would be wise to 
+mirror it on alamut. But we can decide to at least offer viewvc for adm, packages, and web ?
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+