Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Unable to 'tla get' from public mirror -- PANIC: I/O error

[Aaron Bentley]

Robin Farine wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 September 2004 15.24, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> > Robin Farine wrote:
> >
> > > As an alternative solution, would it be feasible to completely
> > > drop the notion of registering a mirror under a different name?
> > > In this case, archive-mirror would take archive locations in
> > > arguments instead of archive names.
> >
> > I see some problems: How would archive-mirror select the
> > location? 
>
>
> The locations would would be passed explicitly, e.g.

People tend to scream when we take away functionality.  I haven't 
figured out why yet. :-)

> I have not checked the code but I guess it could be called with 
> 'source location' and 'destination location', fetch the archive 
> names from these locations and ensure they match.

If you do check the code, you'll see it initializes a structure that has 
a field for "name".  This field is used in many places, including some 
places it shouldn't be.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.