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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive
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Zack Brown |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive |
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Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:48:57 -0700 |
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:35:47AM -0700, Robert Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:12, Zack Brown wrote:
> > I think it's possible to just 'mv' the category directory into a new
> > archive,
> > and re-register it in the new archive. But there's no guarantee that this
> > will always work. It just happens to work at the moment.
>
> No. It never has and never will work.
"and never will"??
On 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
> will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
What exactly ties a category to a particular archive? Isn't it just
string data within the category itself? And if so, won't a simple
search-and-replace operation modify all those strings appropriately?
There must be a procedure that can work.
Be well,
Zack
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> Bob
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Zack Brown
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Zack Brown, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Alexander Deruwe, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Robert Collins, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Zack Brown, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Robert Collins, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive,
Zack Brown <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Robert Collins, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Zack Brown, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Robert Collins, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Andrew Suffield, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Robert Collins, 2003/09/15