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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive
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Robert Anderson |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive |
Date: |
15 Sep 2003 08:02:49 -0700 |
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:48, Zack Brown wrote:
> 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"??
That's correct. If it did work, whatever that software was wouldn't be
"arch" anymore.
> 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.
What are you trying to accomplish, and why? tagging is the mechanism
for "migrating" a category into another archive. Screwing with archive
contents outside tla's interface is almost always a bad idea.
Bob
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive, Robert Anderson, 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, 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 <=
- 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