Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 09:19, James Blackwell wrote:
> In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
> >>> I wish we I could do
> >>> tla get http://sourcecontrol.net/~miles/address@hidden/emacs--cvs-trunk--0
> >
> > Are there technical or philosophical reasons why it's considered
> > a bad thing?
> 
> At least one. The url you're talking about is actually probably this 99
> character monster:
> 
> http://sourcecontrol.net/~miles/address@hidden/
>   emacs/emacs--cvs-trunk/emacs--cvs-trunk--0/

Nah. It's easier than that:
location/version-spec
i.e.
http://sourcecontrol.net/~miles/address@hidden /
emacs--cvs-trunk--0

Note, the lack of a trailing /, and the spaces I've put around the
rightmost slash. We could deterministically parse that to turn it into
three steps
1) locate-archive $location  
  Here we find the archive name from the location, IF its registered.
2) if it's not registered, register it.
   if it is registered, strip any -SOURCE or -MIRROR
3) tla get $name/$version-spec

> > Oh and while I'm here: after building tla-1.2pre1, how can I do a
> > `tla update all' that would do an `update' in all the trees that compose
> > the distribution of tla ?
> 
> tla catcfg configname  | cut -f1 | xargs -n1 tla update

or (sorry, I know I'm pimping)
cm update configname

Rob
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