Re: [Gnu-arch-users] making a public mirror

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 18:04, Dustin Sallings wrote:

>       I don't really understand the relevance.  Can I not have commit access 
> to an archive that doesn't belong to me?

Yes. 

>       Either way, I was just quoting the documentation and using the example 
> here.
> 
>       My question is regarding the concept of creating a public mirror of an 
> archive I do own without losing the ability to commit to that archive.  
> The documentation suggests that this is not possible, but that doesn't 
> seem correct.

The way it works is that you have multiple registrations for the same
-logical- archive, at different physical locations.

i.e. for a local mirror of address@hidden you would have two
registrations:
1) address@hidden  /* one of tom's mirror sites */

2) address@hidden  ~/arch/archives/lord-mirror

all requests for address@hidden will go to location 2).

then push-mirror would be pulling from the -SOURCE registered location
(1) to your location (2).

second example: a web accessible mirror your your own tree
address@hidden
1) address@hidden ~/arch/archives/my-archive
2) address@hidden -MIRROR http://www.somelocation.com/myarchive/

all your normal access, including commits will go to 1). When you
push-mirror, the contents of 1) will be pushed to 2). Everyone else in
the world will register the archive as
address@hidden http://www.somelocation.com/myarchive/.

I hope this helps clear it up.

Cheers,
Rob
 

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