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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Little problem with address@hidden
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Robert Anderson |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Little problem with address@hidden |
Date: |
26 Sep 2003 08:50:48 -0700 |
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 08:34, David Brown wrote:
> In making a local mirror of address@hidden, I discovered a little
> problem. I'm mirroring to a Mac OSX machine, which is case-preserving,
> but case-insensitive in its filesystem.
>
> address@hidden contains two categories LabNotes and Labnotes, which
> cause an error upon mirror, since they resolve to the same pathname.
>
> Names are up to the archive owner, but I'm wondering if these two
> categories are really intended to be present, since there are two
> branches. It looks to me like only a single category was intended.
Typos happen, and there's no category deletion command (intentionally).
As a workaround you can use the limits arguments to push-mirror to grab
the other categories and skip those for now. They aren't essential to
building any of the code in the archive.
Bob