Re: [Gnu-arch-users] More archive corruption!!

[Charles Duffy]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:03, David Snopek wrote:
> Ok, I fixed this.  I read through the source and ended up adding the
> directory ++revision-lock/+contents to
> xmldoom/xmldoom/xmldoom--mainline/xmldoom-mainline--0.0/patch-4
> 
> Why did I have to do this?

The lock not existing at all tends to happen after someone's been
manually fiddling with their archive.

The lock being in the wrong (valid) state is prone to happen after an
interrupted operation -- in which case "tla lock-revision" should be
able to bail you out without any manual intervention.