[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Andrew Antle]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Hannes Rist <hrist at selfnet.de> wrote:
> Ionut Biru wrote:
>>
>> On 02/02/2010 07:53 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> There's also the problem that some mirrors (most of the ones I've
>>>>> tried) sync the package database before syncing all the packages.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, syncing the db last is not going to improve things: if some
>>>> packages get deleted, they won't be found when updating against the
>>>> old db.
>>>
>>> - download new packages
>>> - update db
>>> - delete old packages
>>>
>>
>> now tell us how do this order with rsync.
>
> the debian mirror scripts have such a staged setup with 2 rsync runs, might
> wanna have a look at them mirror.debian.org somewhere here.
> http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror 'how to mirror' it's explained there.

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.
...
Sounds pretty good, Hannes.
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Andrew Antle
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