[mirror-admin] push mirroring plans

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> 
> Using email this need to be done:
>   - procmail or something similar is required, need to define proper
>     access right, adapt selinux policy to allow running rsync on ftp
>     content from procmail
>   - I need to open port 25 (smtp) for whole world, or at least for our
>     SMTP gateway
>   - make a script, which can do some GPG magic to test, if it's email
>     is not a fake
>   - easy to implement in mirrormanager
> 

You're missing a *major* advantage of mail triggering, which is that it
queues cleanly.  That avoids a whole bunch of potentially ugly failure
modes.

	-hpa

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