On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:58, Roman Kyrylych<roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:55, Roman Kyrylych<roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:41, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
I think a big improvemt will be when we fix it so that if we move packages from testing to extra/core, mirrors will not see as a "file remove and a new file", which causes a lot of unneeded traffic. if we make this system use symlinks or whatever this can be handled much better. but other then that, I think the current syncing system is fine. (the "getting" part is something different. see tiered setup,mirrorbrain etc. discussions)
Since we already use symlinks for -any packages this proposal looks okay. The layout could be like this then:
Oops, copy-paste error. Should be this way.
Double FAIL!!! core/os/i686/foobar-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz -> ../../../all-packages/os/i686/foobar-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz extra/os/i686/foobaz-4.5.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz -> ../../../all-packages/os/i686/foobar-4.5.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz all-packages/os/i686/foobar-4.5.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz This is just an idea. Feel free to shoot it if you don't like it. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)