Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Creating a "main" archive

[Robert Collins]

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 19:31, Matthew Reppert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a project I'm going to put into an arch repository,
> regardless of how this discussion goes. Anyway, the project
> will live on a friend's system somewhere (kai); this is where
> the website and "main" arch repository will reside. I'll be
> doing development from two systems: my i686 workstation
> (minerva) and my OS X laptop (chloe). 
> 
> I want to be able to push changes from local archives on
> minerva and chloe to the main archive on kai. Most
> development will probably happen on minerva, except for three
> months out of the year when I'll *have* to use chloe. As I
> understand it, I can't, then, just set up the main archive to
> be a mirror of one of my work archives, since archive-mirror
> requires that the destination be a mirror of the source, and
> you can only mirror from one archive. I *could* pull the
> changes while logged in to kai using star-merge, but it would
> be more convenient to push them from wherever I'm working,
> since at any given time I don't know what chloe's ip (or a
> resolvable hostname) might be without looking it up.

Ok, so you need a read write archive in two locations: kai and chloe.

> Is there a way to push changes from multiple sources to a
> common destination like this that I've overlooked? If not, is
> this considered a desirable resident-in-tla feature, or is it
> it preferred that users rely on something tla-pqm?

No, because in the global namespace the readwrite archive on kai, and on
chloe are logically different: address@hidden and
address@hidden

You can easily have two mirrors on your website, one for the archive
from kai, and one for the archive from chloe. I'd suggest though, that
pqm is a good strategy, merge everything to kai, and have kai auto
mirror it to the web. Then folk only need to be aware of the kai based
archive, and you can starmerge down to chloe from the public mirror
during those three months ..

Rob
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