Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] libraries don't play well with partial mirrors

[Bug Goo]

Created as bug 108

On Thu May  6 21:16:58 2004, Jason McCarty wrote:
> In my mirror of address@hidden, I used archive-mirror with limits to
> mirror tla--devo--1.3, but not tla--devo--1.2. With a greedy/sparse
> library, a get of tla--devo--1.3 causes the following:
> 
> * ensuring library has address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3--patch-9
> * searching ancestor revision in library in archive address@hidden
> corrupt archive
>   name: address@hidden
>   location: /home/jason/arch/cache/address@hidden
>   revision: tla--devo--1.2--patch-115
> 
> It would be nice if library-adding understood that a missing ancestor
> revision may be due to a partial mirror, rather than a corrupt one, and
> to stop searching for ancestors at that point. Not attempting to follow
> continuations at all, as in the "avoiding ancestor scan" bug, might be
> acceptable.
>