On Feb 23, 2004, at 13:04, John F Meinel Jr wrote:
I believe I understand what you are saying. Basically your
"swap-mirrors" command just changes where the
~/.arch-params/=locations points to so that you can switch from RO to
RW (because you checkout locally RO, and checkin remotely RW). I
think that you are definitely one that could benefit from the
write-through mirrors. I think -SOURCE style mirrors should probably
default to write-through.
Yes, I believe write-through would obsolete my swap-mirrors
script, especially since it's coupled with a hook that triggers a
mirror of every commit against my main archive back to the local system.
Also, the issue with signing is that I _don't_ want to sign a mirror.
I want to keep the original signature.
~/.arch-params/signing/=default is the _default_ way to sign an
archive. To copy signatures you need to tell the local archive what
signatures you want, and that means modifying the
~/.arch-params/signing/<archive> file. I'm just asking for an
argument to make-archive that creates that file and fills it out
correctly for you.
Ohh, read that one wrong. It almost seems like a signed mirror of
a signed archive should just copy the signatures unless it's got some
specific instruction telling it to do otherwise. It seems that people
have different views on the purpose of signing a mirror, though.