[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:24:22 +0100
Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:


> I didn't understand what you meant first time. I think I got it now.
> If I understand it well you mean having all packages in one directory
> on server and the repos would be differentiated by some text files or
> symlinks. The difference is really small (have all packages in one
> place and link them vs. have current repository layout and move files
> between directories on server).

the difference is big, because rsync (used by mirrors to sync with us)
doesn't/cannot know a file has moved. it deletes the old file and
downloads it again under the new name/path

Dieter