[Gnu-arch-users] Re: register-archive potential ambiguity

[Miles Bader]

Samium Gromoff <address@hidden> writes:
>       Say we have an archive (i don`t think there is difference between
>  local/remote in this case) address@hidden
> 
>       Could there be any problem if i register it like:
> 
>       tla register-archive address@hidden 
> http://somewhere.in.the.net/address@hidden

There's no fundamental problem, but note that if the archive contains
tags that point to address@hidden/...' then it won't realize that it
can get them from address@hidden, it will look for them in whatever
archive is register as address@hidden (if any).

Sometimes it can be useful to have the two names be different, e.g., if
you want to to keep track of multiple copies of the same `logical'
archive.  I have address@hidden' point to the main R/W copy of
my archive, and address@hidden' point to the mirror on
arch.linuxguru.net, even though in some sense they're the same archive.

[tla's mirroring system uses various conventions like appending `-SOURCE'
or `-MIRROR' to the archive name]

>       Shouldn`t it better take one location argument and then deduce the name
>  from the http://somewhere.in.the.net/address@hidden/=meta-info/name ?

That might be a useful shortcut, but it can't be the only method.

-Miles
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