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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development |
Date: |
Thu, 13 May 2004 00:04:17 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Matthieu Moy <address@hidden>
> Charles Duffy <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Is such a mirrored archive a proper archive in a sense that if the
> >> laptop gets stolen/broken/etc I can easily turn the mirror into my
> >> main repository?
> > Yes; there's only a single file (=mirror) that needs to be deleted to
> > change the mirror into a proper archive.
> ... Therefore, you could have a script to sync the mirrors, delete the
> =mirror file on one machine and create it on the other. That would
> allow you to swap mirror and archive easily.
> Call that script before going offline, and the oposite script after
> comming back online.
Wow. Completely accurate but now you're into the dark underbelly of
unofficial-but-true-and-certainly-unsupported-yet-likely-to-work-for-a_very_
long-time arch coolness.
simplicity pays off in unexpected ways,
-t
- [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development, Andrzej WÄ…sowski, 2004/05/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development, Charles Duffy, 2004/05/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/05/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development, Wazow, 2004/05/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development, Cameron Patrick, 2004/05/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/05/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development, Jan Hudec, 2004/05/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development, Matthieu Moy, 2004/05/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development, James Blackwell, 2004/05/13