Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public mirror

[mlh]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:21:52PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> In my mind is the concept of taking my branch and "make public", so that
> my coworker can cherry pick/ merge off my branch, to his heart's
> content.
> 
> (And vice versa of course, he making his branch public.)
> 
> I imagine the simplest way is something like this:
> 
> cd ~/public_html
> ln -s ~/\{archives\} .
> 
> So, I've read on the wiki about something called .listing files. These
> seem to be created in "Mirror" archives.
> 
> However, is there any reason I must unnecessarily mirror my whole
> archive, just to make it public? Can't I just symlink, and somehow
> create these .listing files within my main archive?

Yes, I believe you can just create a =meta-info/http-blows file
and run archive-fixup.

But really, you're better off doing it the official way.

Plus, symlinks are not typically followed from public_html.

Matt