Re: [Gnu-arch-users] failed inode signature validation...

[Johannes Berg]

Martin Rubey wrote:

> axiom--main--1--patch-24/
>
> containing everyting I want. This is what I put on the CD.
>  
And it also contained the pristine trees under {arch}/++pristine-trees/ 
(or similar)

> This sounds like getting 60 MB via my modem? I definitely don't want to do
> this.
>  
You should make a mirror of the archive at work (to another directory), 
and copy that mirror to CD. Alternatively, you can just copy the 
original archive to CD, and at home copy to HD again copying the "name" 
file to "mirror" in =meta-info in the archive tree (this makes it a 
mirror). Then you can register the archive you copied off the CD as your 
local mirror.

> > What I would recommend is to create a mirror of the original archive, and
> > put *that* on a CD. 
>
> I suppose I can use the stuff I copied for that, can't I? It sounds like I have
> to delete all files which don't belong to arch?
>  
No, you can't use any of the stuff you copied because it only contains a 
current snapshot, no archive data.

> So this is fooling arch into believing that my pristine is from the project
> archive somewhere on the web? Is it necessary for this step that they are
> identical at that moment? (I guess not)
>  
No, you're not fooling arch at all. First, you're working with a copy of 
the archive (mirror), and arch creates your pristine stuff from that 
first, then you change the archive registration to the original on the 
web. And yes, they need be identical (well,  the copy can be a subset of 
the original, but may not contain anything different from the original).

johannes