Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration

[James Blackwell]

In lists.arch.users, (I forget who) wrote:
> tla get http://sourcecontrol.net/~miles/address@hidden/\
>    emacs--cvs-trunk--0

Then I wrote:
> At least one. The url you're talking about is actually probably this 99
> character monster:
>
> http://sourcecontrol.net/~miles/address@hidden/
>   emacs/emacs--cvs-trunk/emacs--cvs-trunk--0/
>
> Nah. It's easier than that:
> location/version-spec
> i.e.
> http://sourcecontrol.net/~miles/address@hidden /
> emacs--cvs-trunk--0

I parse that as you mean this:
tla get http://url.com/some/archive/root / a--b[--c[--d]] ?

Which doesn't strike me as right because now we're collecting / in
argv[2] and then throwing it away. So you mean the this?:
tla get http://url.com/some/archive/root a--b[--c[--d]] ?

This would be ok with me, I guess, but it's no longer an url as the OP
was requesting in the first place. 

Or did you mean this (and just put the spaces in to underscore a point
you were making that I didn't understand.
tla get http://url.com/some/archive/root/a--b[--c[--d]] ?

Because I absolutely hate this. Now we're building an url (whether http,
sftp, or whatnot) that in the real world would generate a 404. So, what
do we do then? Make it valid by actually adding a a--b[--c[--d]] file
there? What would we put in it? How many of these could we end up with
in the top level directory of an archive? 




> Note, the lack of a trailing /, and the spaces I've put around the
> rightmost slash. We could deterministically parse that to turn it into
> three steps
> 1) locate-archive $location =20
>   Here we find the archive name from the location, IF its registered.
> 2) if it's not registered, register it.
>    if it is registered, strip any -SOURCE or -MIRROR
> 3) tla get $name/$version-spec
>
>> > Oh and while I'm here: after building tla-1.2pre1, how can I do a
>> > `tla update all' that would do an `update' in all the trees that compos=
> e
>> > the distribution of tla ?
>>=20
>> tla catcfg configname  | cut -f1 | xargs -n1 tla update
>
> or (sorry, I know I'm pimping)
> cm update configname
>
> Rob
> --=20
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