FTP push failure...

[John A Meinel]

Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:15:50AM +0000, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
>> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 00:47 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>> Is it curently broken?
>> It's possible :-)
> 
> Sad to hear that...
> 
>> There is a small number of FTP fixes in my branch (along with other
>> stuff so don't merge it blindly, mostly 'missing' fixes from aaron
>> really) at http://bzr.digital-scurf.org/trees/dsilvers/bzr.dsilvers
>>
>> Try that and see if it helps.
> 
> Before embarking on that path I'd like to try something else. (Mostly
> because I haven't done anything like it before and I'm likely to mess up
> a few times. :-)
> 
> I always thought a branch is a branch is a branch in bzr. If I can use
> rsync to mirror a local branch I ought to be able to use lftp to do the
> same, right?

You should be able to.

> Nope, didn't quite work. I uploaded it all. Howewer, branching off it
> using http as transport didn't quite work (I don't have the output here
> at the moment, I'll post it to the list later today). Should it have?

Well, you should have everything that you need. It may not be an exact
bitwise copy. I can think of instances where you might have some extra
files in your local copy that you don't need, so when you pull from
http, it won't download them.
The important thing would be that "bzr check" completes successfully
after downloading from http.

> 
> (I'm slightly worried the hosting service I have might screw things up.
> I remember some special work-around in TLA to help http access, .listing
> or something. If you haven't guessed it yet I don't really know that
> much about all this :-)

tla required being able to list directories. bzr uses a different
approach, where it knows where a couple files are, and they contain
references to other files, which tells it where everything is.
(.bzr/inventory.weave lists the id's of all the files, which can be
found in .bzr/weaves/, etc).

I'm not sure who you have for hosting. Certainly there are places that
could cause problems (I believe I remember geocities disallowing certain
extensions, so you had to name everything *.txt).

John
=:->

> 
> /M
> 


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