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

[Michael scherer]

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:
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> 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