Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Preliminary Arch Cache available

[Eric Wong]

David Allouche <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 09:17 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > Comparison with partial mirrors:
> > Pro:
> > 1. Always up to date
> > 2. Never downloads anything you don't need
> > 3. Allows you to commit
> > 
> > Con:
> > 4. Still requires a connection before using the cache
> 
> > What's missing:
> > - Ancestry data is not cached
> > - Revision type data is not cached
> > - Lazy initialization would be very nice (there are issues with this 
> > that I'll detail in a followup email)
> > - If a cacherev is downloaded, it should still be usable if the cacherev 
> > is removed from the original archive
> > - Easy commandline tools, e.g. tla my-arch-cache
> > - Support for disconnected operation
> 
> As a complement to disconnected operation, I would like a command to
> fill the cache with the contents of an archive. Typically, one would
> fill the cache before going offline or at the beginning of a day of
> work, when there might be a lot of new stuff.
> 
> That would effectively make it a local-mirror-killer.

How about combining the cache with local mirrors? (if one exists)  This
would allow  archive-mirror  to perform a cache fill.

Any regular retrievals would then fill the mirror on an as-needed basis.

-- 
Eric Wong  (normalperson)

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