[oi-dev] Downloading archives to a common area

[Alasdair Lumsden]

On 10 May 2012, at 01:41, Bayard Bell wrote:

> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Bayard Bell <buffer.g.overflow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> It also lets us add $(WS_TOP)/archives to .hgignore and no longer have to put up with seeing downloaded archives in the "hg status" output.
>>>> 
>>>> Before I begin work on this changeset for illumos-userland, does anyone have any feedback?
>> 
>> I'd like to see some caution against blowing away archives in there,
>> if possible.
>> Otherwise sharing it gets quite difficult.
> 
> Yes. Can someone [else--it's not so hard, and I'm happy to help
> someone else through it, but I'm already a blocky resource] scope
> changes in userland-fetch?

I have created:

https://www.illumos.org/issues/2714

I may look at this once I've finished my higher priority changesets, unless someone else wants to take the issue before hand.