[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:36:50 +0100
Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, what I meant was that difference between having package pool to
> which packages are linked and sending some text file to all servers
> saying "Hi, please move package foo-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz from
> [testing] to [core]" which would result in something * like "mv
> testing/foo-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz core/". Both would send only a
> list of files which should be moved.

that would require custom scripting. it's much more convenient to use
symlinks. rsync supports symlinks, no need to reinvent the wheel.

Dieter