Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pull / Push based Mirror

[Dustin Sallings]

On Feb 23, 2004, at 12:17, John F Meinel Jr wrote:

> That's what I thought. Except it works just as well either way. So if 
> I create a local copy of a public mirror. I can type tla 
> archive-mirror <pub> and it will "push" the files from the remote 
> archive to the local one (which I would consider a pull)
> So the only thing I can see is that the -MIRROR, versus the -SOURCE 
> issue.
> I just tested it with the following:

	Well, I don't really like the push vs. pull distinction there, I think 
it's a bit confusing.  The entire difference is (as you're stating) the 
names of the archives.

	However, the important thing here is the name of the archive without 
the -MIRROR or -SOURCE.  I've got a script that swaps a tree from one 
mode to the other.  If I have a -SOURCE entry, then I consider my view 
of the tree to be read-only.  My swap-mirrors script convers my -SOURCE 
type mirror to a -MIRROR type mirror.

        That sounds rather confusing, so let me give you my use case:

	I have an archive on a webdav server at home.  My connectivity isn't 
that great, so big syncs take a while.  I mirror that archive all over 
the place, but also write to it from various locations.  if I run my 
swap-mirrors script so that the mirror is RO, it means checkouts happen 
from my local mirror.  If I want to commit, I run swap-mirrors again to 
go into RW mode, which means operations all take place against my 
WebDAV server.

	I also have mirrors that are neither -MIRROR or -SOURCE.  It just 
means you have to manually specify both the TO and the FROM.

> On a side note, would it be possible to add a flag to automatically 
> create the file in ~/.arch-params/signing
> It's a little bit of a pain to do tla make-archive --signed --mirror 
> ..., and then edit a text file, and then call tla archive-mirror
> Maybe a --signed-keep, or --keep-signature or something like that.

	You shouldn't need to do this if your signing all works the same way.  
You can have a ~/arch-params/signing/=default (I believe that's the 
right path, I don't have signing set up on any of my computers here) 
that will apply for any archives you haven't specifically overridden.

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Dustin Sallings