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

[Aaron Bentley]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:12, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Miles> To be honest I'm not sure; it does appear to be a basically
>     Miles> unambiguous and really fairly easy to implement.  There's
>     Miles> no need to worry about the archive's actual structure, just
>     Miles> the path to its root (the actual archive grovelling is
>     Miles> completely through existing tla commands).
> 
> What would you do if the archive was already registered at another
> location, eg. perhaps a mirror for instance.
> 
> I guess you could:
> 1. Re-register at new location.
> 2. Just use existing registered location.
> 3. Complain with an error.

4. Use without registering/register temporarily and revert/
Of course, subsequent commands will use the previous-registered
location.

But if you've got divergent archives with the same name, you're
neck-deep in it anyhow.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
PanoMetrics, Inc.