Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Cachrevs in mirrors.sourcecontrol.net

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 22:22, John F Meinel Jr wrote:
> I was wondering about getting cacherevs put into the sourcecontrol 
> mirrors. I believe tla archive-mirror doesn't mirror cachrevs,

It does, and in fact it does by default.

address@hidden> tla archive-mirror --help | grep -i cache
  --no-cached        don't copy cached revisions
  --cached-tags      copy only cachedrevs for tags to other archives

>  so they 
> all need to be put in manually. But I noticed when I went to get
> address@hidden/tlacontrib--aba--1.3--patch-44
> 
> That I had to get all of tlacontrib--aba--1.2 which was 102 patches, for 
> a total of 146 patches.

Either he doesn't have any cacherevs in his archive, or sourcecontrol
isn't mirroring.  I suspect it's the former.

> I know there have been a lot of discussions about improvements in the 
> arch repository for handling cachrevs, and automatic super-patches, etc. 
> And maybe we are just waiting for that to happen, but right now it is 
> pretty painful to get things from the mirrors for the first time.

It works fine for me.

> It also might be reasonable to have tla archive-mirror optionally 
> support moving cacherevs since if someone thought it was wise to create 
> a cacherevs in their repository, then it probably is a good location for 
> the mirror to have the cacherevs.

Again, it already copies them by default.

> I think the big problem is that the owner of the archive doesn't have 
> permission to create a cacherev in the mirror, 

Eh?  Certainly if it's their personal mirror they do.  Are you talking
about on sourcecontrol.net?

> and the owner of the 
> mirror doesn't necessarily know where a good location to put a cacherev 
> is. (Especially since mirroring is an automated process.)

Well, I think this is something that a tool could make a pretty good
guess at, by looking at the size of previous cacherevs (or import if
necessary), combined with the number of succeeding revisions and their
size.

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