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From: Kevin Geiss <kevin@desertsol.com>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] mirroring concepts/practice help
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:29:01 -0700
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On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:11 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> # Now if you want to register someone else's archive, and create a 
> local
> mirror of it
> # This is called a pull mirror, since you pull the other archives
> patches locally.
> # This is designed so that changes, revisions, etc all look at the
> mirror rather than
> # the original. You still cannot commit to the mirror, though.
>
> tla register-archive $real-SOURCE $realpath
> tla make-archive --mirror-from $real-SOURCE $mirrorpath
> # Now ~/.arch-params/=locations has $mirrorpath as the location for 
> $real
> tla archive-mirror $real
>
> Basically tla archive-mirror looks at your local registry to figure out
> whether it is push mirroring or pull mirroring. Since you are trying to
> create a local mirror of a remote repository so that you can work
> offline, you want a pull-mirror. So you need to do the second steps.

got it, thanks, that's exactly what I was wanting to do.

the 'tla make-archive -H' didn't quite penetrate into my brain. it uses 
'--mirror-from MASTER-SOURCE' in it's examples, and I didn't realize at 
first that the MASTER part was a separate variable from the '-SOURCE' 
part :)

thanks, I think this all makes sense now.


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