Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@gmail.com> writes:
- download new packages - update db - delete old packages
from http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror#how ... * MUST perform a 2-stage sync ... Rationale: if archive mirroring is done in a single stage, there will be periods of time during which the index files will reference files not yet mirrored.
I must be missing something.. isn't --delete-after good enough?
you are missing the fact that it will download the database file before it downloads the package files. So if I "-Syu" at that time pacman will want to upgrade packages that are not on the mirror.
Which is why mirrors must sync the database AFTER syncing the packages.
I don't get it. Why is it such a big problem? If pacman tries to download a package that isn't on the mirror, quit it and try it later...