Re: --keep-signatures flag (was Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pull / Push based Mirror)

[Dustin Sallings]

On Feb 23, 2004, at 13:04, John F Meinel Jr wrote:

> I believe I understand what you are saying. Basically your 
> "swap-mirrors" command just changes where the 
> ~/.arch-params/=locations points to so that you can switch from RO to 
> RW (because you checkout locally RO, and checkin remotely RW). I think 
> that you are definitely one that could benefit from the write-through 
> mirrors. I think -SOURCE style mirrors should probably default to 
> write-through.

	Yes, I believe write-through would obsolete my swap-mirrors script, 
especially since it's coupled with a hook that triggers a mirror of 
every commit against my main archive back to the local system.

> Also, the issue with signing is that I _don't_ want to sign a mirror. 
> I want to keep the original signature. ~/.arch-params/signing/=default 
> is the _default_ way to sign an archive. To copy signatures you need 
> to tell the local archive what signatures you want, and that means 
> modifying the ~/.arch-params/signing/<archive> file. I'm just asking 
> for an argument to make-archive that creates that file and fills it 
> out correctly for you.

	Ohh, read that one wrong.  It almost seems like a signed mirror of a 
signed archive should just copy the signatures unless it's got some 
specific instruction telling it to do otherwise.  It seems that people 
have different views on the purpose of signing a mirror, though.

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Dustin Sallings