Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:11:48AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:22:45AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >so when commiting a simple changeset the permissions of
> >cat--branch--ver directory would be copied, if creating a new version
> >permissions of cat--branch would be copied, if creating a new branch
> >permissions of the category would be copied, if creating a new
> >category the permissions of the top level archive dir would be copied.
> >
> >one could also restrict access on who is allowed to create new
> >categories/branches/versions.
> 
> I like that idea.  A lot.  But does sftp let you stat() a file on the
> remote side?  Could we have something like this in case it doesn't?

worse case you parse the ls output.

> .arch-params/=meta-info/=archive-umask
> .arch-params/=meta-info/=category-umask
> .arch-params/=meta-info/=branch-umask
> .arch-params/=meta-info/=version-umask
> .arch-params/=meta-info/=patchlevel-umask

this is no good, it doesn't specify what archives, or parts of
archives they apply to.

your also putting that in the user's hands?  that is quite prone to breakage.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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