[BusyBox] SVN tarball snapshots?

[Jean-Francois Couture]

Just a tought but,

Could't you exclude the svn section in a robots.txt file so the robots would not get into it ?

Jeff C.
 

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De : busybox-bounces at mail.busybox.net [mailto:busybox-bounces at mail.busybox.net] De la part de Erik Andersen
Envoyé : 11 mars 2005 12:59
À : Rob Landley
Cc : busybox at busybox.net
Objet : Re: [BusyBox] SVN tarball snapshots?

On Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 11:45:04AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> Under the old CVS stuff I used to be able to click on a link to get a 
> tarball of the current CVS.  That link isn't there anymore...
> 
> Just wondering.

I shut down that link since stupid web robots were wanding around under cgi-bin, downloading terabytes of every feasible version of every project, and sending the load average on the server to ~80 with zillions of concurrent gzip and tar processes running.
Really really annoying, painful, and was making the site terribly unresponsive.  So I was forced to disable it or come up with a nifty scheme to sort out the people from the bots, which would have been annoying.  I opted to just kill the instant tarball feature and be done with it.  Sorry about that.  The stupid bots have spoiled things for everyone.  Thank your friendly neighborhood spammers (with a baseball bat if possible ;)

I do generate daily snapshots, so you can of course always fetch a snapshot and run 'svn up' to get it up to the second.

 -Erik

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