[arch-dev-public] Killing [unstable] for good

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 18:15:53 EST 2009


On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Dale Blount <dale at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 12:13 -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
>> Any qualms about killing [unstable] from our FTP completely? We still
>> have the directories and the "empty" databases sitting around. I think
>> we've given plenty of warning to people that unstable no longer
>> exists.
>>
>
> It's only been missing from the mirror script for about a month now...
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Local_Mirror
> Any mirror setup before then with this script will be throwing errors
> like mine is...
>
> Not a huge issue, it gives a detailed enough message to know that
> unstable doesn't exist anymore and the rest of the repos continue to
> sync...

The rsync stanza on gerolde has definitely been gone for a while, so
removing the directories themselves will really only affect people
that pull everything, right? And for them, it won't really matter
because it is just another directory that gets mirrored.

-Dan


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