Re: [Gnu-arch-users] removing a branch?

[Phil Frost]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:09:58PM -0800, Bobby Holley wrote:
> 
> Thanks, worked great! On another note, what's the deal with the .listing 
> files? I noticed that when I put my archive in a web accessible directory and 
> tried to access of over http, and it gave me a 404 error. I checked my server 
> logs, and it said that I had tried to get .listing, which didn't appear to 
> exist, so I coppied the layout from another arch repository I found and made 
> my own .listing file, and it worked. Are they an apache or an arch thing? Why 
> are they necessary for http requests (especially since i have directory 
> listing enabled in apache) yet not provided? Should they exist in any 
> directory besides the archive root? Is there a script I can use to generate 
> them?

They allow arch to get a directory listing over http, since http doesn't
provide that capability directly. They can be created by either using
tla make-archive --listing, or they can be added to an existing archive
by touching =meta-info/http-blows and then running tla archive-fixup.