The recent thread... handling new releases

[Ken Smith]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:59:55PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> I have wondered if cvsup could be smart enough to download files
> under one name, and then afterwards (on a later run) know to just
> rename that file to the official name for a public release.

This is an "I don't know but can look into it".  Even if the answer is
"Yes" though, it might be more important to focus on what motivated
the question.  I have learned that the transfer mechanisms in use
amongst the mirrors varies widely, not all use cvsup.  As far as I can
tell there is nothing that could do this in rsync for example, I
already know a bit more about rsync than cvsup.  With some research
maybe a mechanism that accomplishes the goal can be found that would
work for more transfer mechanisms (not sure what right now, but playing
games with hard links type thing maybe).

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