Important changes: * implementation of a package pool: all packages are now stored in pool/packages or pool/community directories on the ftp server. The current repository directories like extra/os/i686 only contain symlinks. As a results moving pacakges between repositories is now a matter of altering symlinks and as such very cheap. This should solve the problems with not fully synced mirrors we had in the past when a lot of packages were moved from e.g. testing to extra.
Has anyone done any testing on this to make sure our mirrors are configured to rsync symlinks properly? There is a flag to copy them as the source file, one to copy the symlink as a symlink, and another to ignore them altogether. We don't want to make this change until we can confirm the majority of the mirrors are using the proper rsync flag(s). Dale