On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:12:25AM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote: > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >I think I understand your point. OTOH, I'd rather say "what is > >_possibly_ the wrong location", assuming the user is aware of what > >they're doing. > > > >As mentioned by Sylvain in the Savannah bug report, one possibility > >would be to simply create an archive _within_ the directory at hand, > >instead of _at_ this directory, but this would look inconsistent with > >former practice at Savannah. So, yes, this can be seen as a pure > >Savannah problem, not a `tla' one. > > > > > > Creating an archive within the directory is the right thing to do.
It depends. As Ludovic says, this is not what we initially did when we used to manually pre-initialize archives at Savannah. Some users used this layout, but others users (like Andy ;)) decided to ignore it and create sub-directory archives. Today there is no consistency and no "right" way to do it. I even mix both in arch4debian. Anyway it has always bugged me that tla refuses to create an archive in an empty directory, so I'd vote for including Ludovic's patch :) > That allows projects to divide up materials along logical boundaries > into separate archives. It simplifies access protection management. > And it supports, for long lived projects, "archive rotation". > > > >OTOH, ... > > > >Oh, well, we could argue at length about this but it's not so important > >after all. Maybe a `--really' option would yield consensus? ;-) > > > > I'm sorry to be such a pill but that strikes me as the kind of "just > this once?" > little feature that leads to madness.... oh wait.... the smiley. > You're joking. > Sorry. _______________________________________________ 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/
