Re: [Gnu-arch-users] back-building pfs updates

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>

    > My understanding is that I can only use one version of an archive.
    > Either it's the remote version, or a local one.  If my local mirror is
    > incomplete, I can't access those things my local mirror is missing.

    > So it seems to me that partial mirrors violate the notion that any
    > copy of an archive is interchangeable with any other.


Hmm.  Interesting.

I wonder if there would be utility in making an archive-union.c
implementation of archive.h that let you stack archives with partial
mirrors -- perhaps updating mirrors "on demand" in some cases.

Probably more trouble than it's worth but maybe not.  Not sure,
personally.

-t