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

[Aaron Bentley]

David Allouche wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 00:45 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> > David Allouche wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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's definitely part of the plan for disconnected operation.  The 
> > issue I'm looking at is: "What's required to fill the cache for a 
> > version?"
> >
> > I guess the answer is "whatever is required to build any revision in the 
> > version".  So you'd want a cacherev at base-0, or possibly in an 
> > ancestor, so long as the base-0 could be built from that ancestor, plus 
> > deltas for every revision in the version.
>
>
> That can have unintended side effects.

I'm not sure whether you're reading me correctly.  There should 
definitely be a way to fill a version by itself.  I'm just wondering 
what that "filling a version" should involve.

Should we grab all available cacherevs?  Should we ensure the version 
has one cacherev?  What if the version has an ancestor in the cache with 
 a cacherev?  Does it matter whether that ancestor's in the same 
archive, since the cache spans multiple archives?

Questions about what versions to mirror strike me as different 
questions, and the archive-mirror stuff would be a good starting point.

Aaron