Re: [Gnu-arch-users] mirroring concepts/practice help

[Aaron Bentley]

Kevin Geiss wrote:
> what is the high-level concept/rule involved behind this behavior? I 
> know I would be unable to commit changes in a working tree I get from 
> the mirror, but I thought I could simply check out a working tree to 
> look at it. should I just shut up and make my local archive and start 
> tagging? :)

The concept is: the real name should always be used except when using 
the archive-mirror command.

$FOO is an archive you can get from.  It may or may not be a mirror.
If $FOO is a mirror, $FOO-SOURCE is the upstream archive that you'll use 
to update $FOO.  If you want to create a remote mirror, $FOO-MIRROR is 
the remote mirror, and $FOO is the archive you'll use to update $FOO-MIRROR.

I'm aware that this is messy, and in fact we hope to move to a different 
way of identifying mirrors in baz.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.