2.5.6 release

[jw schultz]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:46:12PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
> In article <20021106174728.GB30370 at pegasys.ws> (at Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:47:28 -0800), jw schultz <jw at pegasys.ws> says:
> 
> > > Please apply my IPv6 ACL patch.
> > > This is very important for ipv6-enabled environment.
> > > 
> > 
> > Rsync CVS has been stable for about 2 months.  This appears
> > to be new functionality.  We make the release and then you
> > can argue for inclusion in 2.5.7.  This patch has had no
> > discussion or justification.
> 
> Are there any "feature freeze" or "code freeze"?
> Or,... how about put it in "patches" directory?

Things having been stable this is about the most painless
point to do a release.  I don't have control but the patches
dir would be reasonable.

> 
> > Your earlier posting is the first i had heard of an IPv6
> > ACL.  I've heard of ACLs for filesystems and for system
> > resources but not for a networking layer such that a normal
> > networking program would need to know about.
> > 
> > Next time you submit your patch (in it's own thread) please
> > include a paragraph or two illuminating us IPv4 paupers what
> > it is.  I'm guessing it does have to do with rsyncd but it
> > seems odd to me there would be no changes in rsyncd.conf.
> 
> The word "ACL" could be confusing.
> 
> It just add IPv6 support for "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" derectives.
> For example, 
> 
>  hosts allow = xxxx:yyyy:zzzz:aaaa:bbbb:cccc:dddd:eeee
> or
>  hosts allow = xxxx:yyyy:zzzz:aaaa::/64
> or
>  hosts allow = xxxx:yyyy:zzzz:aaaa::/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::

Very good.  IPv6 hosts allow/deny specification.

The patch should include documentation additions.

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