[Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#579788: Bug#579788: Bug#579788: amule: share directory on external disk isn't persistent

[Celejar]

On Sun, 2 May 2010 10:19:49 +0200
Werner Mahr <werner at vollstreckernet.de> wrote:

> Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 schrieb Celejar:
> 
> > Thanks for the explanation.  But the disk is not always available,
> >  and I sometimes want to run aMule when the disk isn't there.  In
> >  such a case, isn't the directory still deleted?
> 
> Exactly.

Hm, I see now that I'm running aMule, having started it without the
external disk plugged in, after having previously shut it down while
the external disk had still been plugged in, and the directory from the
external disk actually has remained in the shareddir.dat, even though
the directory doesn't exist currently on disk, and it stays there even
after I hit 'reload shared files'. Does it actually only get removed
when the disk is pulled while aMule is running?

> > Perhaps there could be some sort of option to mark certain special
> > directories as 'persistent', so this way we could have the best of
> >  both worlds.
> 
> This would need a change of the config file, which isn't used only by 
> aMule. We don't care much about the mods out there, but emule has to be 
> able to read these files, too. Beside the fact that there is a change 
> for the gui needed to implement this, and these files are still locked.

Okay.
 
> > Regarding the problem of having constant 'file not found' errors,
> > there's anyway a "Reload shared files" button on the shared files
> > page.  Why not just mark any files or directories not found as
> > 'inactive' or something, and recheck them when the user hits that
> > button?
> 
> The problem with this is, that only dirs are shared. We don't care about 
> single files in this part of the source. The easiest way for you is to 
> just insert the dir, when you plug the disk in.
> 
> echo "your-mountpoint" >> ~/.aMule/shareddir.dat and then reloading the 
> shared files should do the trick. With the right udev-rules you can 
> automate this, too.

The 'echo' is simple enough, but I suppose there's no way to script
the 'reload' command?  [The manpage doesn't indicate that amulecmd
can do this.]

Celejar
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