Re: [Gnu-arch-users] copying archive?

[Aaron Bentley]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:29, Abraham Egnor wrote:
> Is it possible to copy or move an archive from one location to another,
> i.e. from "address@hidden/project--branch--version" to
> "address@hidden/project--branch--version"?  

Having the same archive available at multiple locations is fine.  But
let's be clear about location:
it's the URL, not the name.  address@hidden is the archive name, and is part of
the package/version/revision name.

For example, my archive is available at


Mirroring is supported directly.  To achieve what you want, you could
mirror the archive, and tag.

Then if anyone wants access to an old version of a disappeared archive,
you can just make your mirror available, and they can use that.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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