Re: [Gnu-arch-users] mirroring concepts/practice help

[Kevin Geiss]

On Feb 3, 2005, at 7:32 AM, Kevin Geiss wrote:

> wait, I'm running into a problem still. I'm on my laptop, I want to 
> 'pull' from my archive at desertsol.com to a local mirror on my 
> laptop:
>
> 7:14AM0quasar>tla archive-mirror address@hidden 
> address@hidden
> arch_archive_connect: attempt to connect to wrong mirror
>   archive: address@hidden
>   wanted mirror of: address@hidden
>   got mirror of: address@hidden
> 7:23AM1quasar>tla archives
> address@hidden
>     /Users/kevin/arch/2005-home-MIRROR
> address@hidden
>     sftp://desertsol.com/data/archives/2005-home
>
> I'm sure if I temporarily registered 
> sftp://desertsol.com/data/archives/2005-home with its true name 
> (address@hidden) and the local mirror with the name 
> address@hidden it would work, but then I would 
> need to un-register them, and register the local mirror with the name 
> address@hidden to be able to do anything with it. I'd 
> rather register them once. what am I missing now?

I checked the =meta-info of my local mirror. the 'name' and 'mirror' 
files both contain 'address@hidden'.

so I re-'make archive'ed the mirror, so that it has 
'address@hidden' in the name and mirror files. to do 
that, I registered the real archive with the 
'address@hidden' name, rather than the -SOURCE name.

after the initial archive-mirror command finished, I re-registered the 
two archives using the -SOURCE name for the 'real' archive and the 
normal name for the mirror. then archive-mirror was able to mirror from 
the -SOURCE to the local mirror.

so I guess the important part is what is stored in the 'name' and 
'mirror' meta-info files. the easiest way to set those correctly is to 
use temporary names when first creating the mirror, then switching to 
names you plan to use after that.