Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch mirroring to Microsoft FTP Service

[Jason McCarty]

Andy Tai wrote:
> Hi, does anyone have access to a Microsoft FTP service server that I can be
> given access to try to duplicate this problem?

No, but a while back a had a problem that looks like the same root
cause. This was with larch, however, not tla. I'll quote an old message
of mine, written June 22, 2003 to the old address@hidden
list, message-id address@hidden :
  [...]
  I think this is because Microsoft's FTP server has a buggy NLST
  command:
    Client: NLST /bclg/wwwiup/{archives}/test
    Server: /bclg/wwwiup/{archives}/test\=meta-info
  First, it doesn't include dotfiles in its output. Second, it uses a
  backslash as the final path delimiter.
  [...]

I can't offer you access to my account, but perhaps Stefan can confirm
if this is the problem via tcpdump or otherwise. Probably other FTP
clients have a workaround for this problem we could employ. I recall
NcFTP in particular as being able to list those files (though NcFTP is
under some artistic license, not GPL).

> Andy
> 
> On 6/8/06, Stefan Reichör <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> >> it looks like that
> >> error message comes from a problem with the archive version string
> >> normally found in ".archive-version" in the root directory of the
> >> archive.
> >>
> >> Perhaps that file is missing or inaccessible or there is version skew
> >> for some other reason.
> >
> >I use tla-1.3.3-2 on ubuntu dapper and here is the full output:
> >
> >$ tla archive-mirror address@hidden address@hidden
> >--public-2005-MIRROR
> >Failed to access file '.archive-version'
> >Could not determine archive format, guessing to be tla 1.0

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Jason McCarty <address@hidden>