Specifying a Pacman cache
To specify a cache in Pacman, just specify a local file or directory in any one of the following ways:
- A symbolic name such as: BU (see % pacman -registry)
- A standard unix path specification in your local file system such as: /atlasgrid/caches/
- The URL of a remote file or directory such as: http://atlas.bu.edu/caches/
- A remote file or directory specified via globus such as: gsiftp://atlas.bu.edu/caches/
- A remote file or directory specified vis SSH such as: youssef@atlas.bu.edu:/atlasgrid/caches/
If the local or remote address specifies a file rather than a directory with then the
extension .snap or .caches determines whether the cache is treated as a snapshot
or cache list respectively.