Re: [Gnu-arch-users] back-building pfs updates

[Aaron Bentley]

Tom Lord wrote:

>    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>
>
>    > My understanding is that I can only use one version of an archive.
>    > Either it's the remote version, or a local one.  If my local mirror is
>    > incomplete, I can't access those things my local mirror is missing.
>
>    > So it seems to me that partial mirrors violate the notion that any
>    > copy of an archive is interchangeable with any other.
>
>
> Hmm.  Interesting.
>
> I wonder if there would be utility in making an archive-union.c
> implementation of archive.h that let you stack archives with partial
> mirrors -- perhaps updating mirrors "on demand" in some cases.
>
> Probably more trouble than it's worth but maybe not.  Not sure,
> personally.
>  
Yeah, I had pretty similar thoughts while writing that email.  Could do, 
not sure of value. One nice thing is that Arch already knows the 
mirror-source.  I'm a bit scared of greedy mirrors.  Even greedy revlibs 
can get out of hand.

For mirroring a version easily, I can hack up a version-mirror script.  
You can use aliases to do "aba version-mirror ^integration".  Is that 
useful to anyone?

Aaron