[arch-dev-public] Important: upcoming dbscripts release

[Pierre Schmitz]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:09:40 -0400, Dale Blount <dale at archlinux.org>
wrote:
>> 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

We already use symlinks for our "any" packages which are implemented
for a long time. Thomas already created the pool dirs and they are
synced correctly on our tier1 servers. 

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre