On 31 Jul 2003, Miles Bader wrote:
> Pau Aliagas <linuxnow@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > They'll have to reregister the new archive anyway. Maybe it's easier to
> > change their .arch-params/=locations too if the mirrors are known.
>
> I'm a bit confused by exactly what you renamed/changed, but unless the
> old archive-name resolves to something, tags pointing at the old archive
> will break (I just checked, and even tags within the same archive
> include the archive name). So maybe renaming could work to correct a
> mistakenly named new archive, but it seems like a bad idea for anything
> that's been around for any length of time.
Yes, you are right, it only works for brand new archives.
> [I suppose you could registers duplicate archives, one under the old
> name, and one under the new, both pointing at the same dir... but this
> doesn't seem particularly clean.]
I do this to mirror different archives inside and outside a NAT router.
They are the same archive with a private/public DNS name. Otherwise, I
agree it's confusing.
Pau
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