Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 18:51 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: >> Why does baz require that the destination directory of a make-archive >> not already exist? We would like to have all employees mirror their >> archives to a central location, but would prefer not to grant them write >> access to the parent directory. > > both historical and useful reasons ;0. Its required this as long as I > can recall - all the way from larch on up. You wouldn't want to > intermingle an archive with (say) a
I've just committed a patch to allow empty directories to be specified for make-archive. So, it doesn't allow intermingling, but it won't complain if you do mkdir archive baz make-archive [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive (in the case of Stuart, the "mkdir" step can be done by the admin, and the "make-archive" by the user) -- Matthieu _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
