Re: --keep-signatures flag (was Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pull / Push based Mirror)

[Tom Lord]

    > From: John F Meinel Jr <address@hidden>

    > Also, the issue with signing is that I _don't_ want to sign a mirror. I
    > want to keep the original signature. ~/.arch-params/signing/=default is
    > the _default_ way to sign an archive. To copy signatures you need to
    > tell the local archive what signatures you want, and that means
    > modifying the ~/.arch-params/signing/<archive> file. I'm just asking for
    > an argument to make-archive that creates that file and fills it out
    > correctly for you.

    > I'm willing to make the change, but since I'm new to the project, I
    > wanted to get some feedback to see if it might get integrated back into
    > mainstream tla. I realize with tla I can maintain my own branch. But I
    > don't really want to.

    > So what do people think? Is --keep-signature a good option name? 

Sure.   This should be a change confined entirely to cmd-make-archive.c

    > How should it handle it if the original archive isn't signed?
    > How is that currently handled?

You get an error message the first time you try to copy a signature to
the mirror.

    > Also, should I be discussing this on the Users list, or is this more of
    > a devel list question.


Devel list?   We don't have a separate developers' list at the moment.

-t