sysinstall v2

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed Sep 3 23:22:28 PDT 2003


:-On [20030904 01:12], Matthew Dillon (dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
:>    rsync has an excellent track record and is tiny, with no dependancies.
:>    We should definitely include it.
:
:Just remember it is GPL'd.  Not to stir things up here, but we do need
:to be careful what we use and how, license-wise, since it might bite us
:in the arse later.

    Not an issue.  The base system already has a huge amount of GPL'd stuff
    in it.  Just look in /usr/src/gnu. 

:..
:>    local forks) that cvsup handles.  Without knowing how robust it is I
:>    would hesitate to include it.
:
:I'll ask/check, since I help out on that project anyway.
:
:Oh, btw, it _is_ robust.  I've been using it for a couple of weeks now
:with no ill results.
:
:One of the best features, in my opinion, is the fact that it can list
:the repositories available at site X.
:
:-- 
:Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai

    Ok, that's a datapoint to remember.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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