Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla-rsync-mirror

[Brian May]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:

    Andrew> Disadvantages: - there is presently a small window in
    Andrew> which the destination archive is in an "inconsistent"
    Andrew> state during mirroring, which archive-mirror does not
    Andrew> have. This is actually a bug; I know how to fix it, but it
    Andrew> requires some new code in rsync. To the best of my
    Andrew> knowledge, tla won't have any real problems with this - it
    Andrew> will either ignore the revisions that have not been
    Andrew> completely mirrored yet, or fail with an error, depending
    Andrew> on what it's doing.

What is considered an "inconsistent" state?

What is your proposed solution?

Just curious, because this is not an uncommon problem I have had with
rsync in other applications.
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Brian May <address@hidden>