Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Unable to 'tla get' from public mirror -- PANIC: I/O error

[Robin Farine]

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 15.24, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Robin Farine wrote:
> > As an alternative solution, would it be feasible to completely
> > drop the notion of registering a mirror under a different name?
> > In this case, archive-mirror would take archive locations in
> > arguments instead of archive names.
>
> I see some problems: How would archive-mirror select the
> location? 

The locations would would be passed explicitly, e.g.

 tla archive-mirror http://... sftp://....

archive-mirror would just have verify that the destination is 
actually a mirror of the source archive (the source location can be 
a mirror as well).

> Also, the interface used by archive-mirror assumes that 
> mirrors have names.

I have not checked the code but I guess it could be called with 
'source location' and 'destination location', fetch the archive 
names from these locations and ensure they match.

> > This might cope nicely with a new archive registration
> > mechanism where one archive name maps to many archive
> > locations.
>
> I'm inclined to go along with the current scheme until the new
> registration mechanism is in place, because any work we do before
> then would probably be lost.

I agree, just that I wonder whether or not any work done before at 
all would be lost.

Robin