Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 00:48, Zack Brown wrote:

> On 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
> > will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
> 
> What exactly ties a category to a particular archive? Isn't it just
> string data within the category itself? And if so, won't a simple
> search-and-replace operation modify all those strings appropriately?

And what if someone has already branched off the archive? you'll update
them as well? And their offshoots? And the signed patches one of the
forks from them?

> There must be a procedure that can work.

Yes, but is it feasible?

Rob
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