Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] unhelpful error message when trying to register-archive an archive over HTTP without .listing files

[Bug Goo]

Created as bug 116

On Sun May 16 22:50:31 2004, Thomas Bleher wrote:

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$ tla make-archive address@hidden /home/b/bleher/public_html/arch/test
$ tla register-archive -f http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~bleher/arch/test
webdav error: 404 Not Found

$ echo "it sure does" > 
/home/b/bleher/public_html/arch/test/\=meta-info/http-blows
$ tla archive-fixup -A address@hidden
$ tla register-archive -f http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~bleher/arch/test
Registering archive: address@hidden

I think tla should try to access another archive file (say
.archive-version) to see if there was an archive and adjust the error
message accordingly.
(Something like: "cannot access archive because .listing-files are
missing")

Thanks,
Thomas

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