[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 16:41:52 EST 2010


>> >>> - 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.



-- 
damjan


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