[Mageia-sysadm] Viewvc installation

Mon Jan 24 20:00:47 CET 2011

Op maandag 24 januari 2011 14:46:09 schreef Michael Scherer:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> since people have asked for it since a long time, and since no much
+> people commented on viewvc vs websvn
+> ( https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-January/002145.html
+> ), and so based on the fact that websvn run svn to get information ( thus
+> would potentially overload the server when google bot team with yahoo to
+> explore the server and our patches ), I have setup viewvc.
+> 
+> I can also setup websvn if someone really need, but a quick check showed
+> that both tools are quite similar in term of features, the only
+> difference being the usage of svn commandline.
+> 
+> There is 2 questions left ( with a default answer with a timeout of 2
+> days ) :
+> - what should be the name ( svn.mageia.org cannot be used, as it point
+> to a different server, a redirect can be setup to another url
+> however ) ?
+> ( default answer : viewvc.mageia.org )
+
+i want svn.mageia.org, so perhaps instead of redirect, you could do a 
+proxypass (with some caching; it's mostly static anyway)? then for all i care, 
+you can use viewvc or something else, if something else is done later on.
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