On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:55, Roman Kyrylych<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:41, Dieter Plaetinck<[email protected]> wrote: >> I think a big improvemt will be when we fix it so that if we move packages >> from testing to extra/core, mirrors will not see as a "file remove and a new >> file", which causes a lot of unneeded traffic. >> if we make this system use symlinks or whatever this can be handled much >> better. >> but other then that, I think the current syncing system is fine. (the >> "getting" part is something different. see tiered setup,mirrorbrain etc. >> discussions) > > Since we already use symlinks for -any packages this proposal looks okay. > The layout could be like this then:
Oops, copy-paste error. Should be this way. i686/foobar-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz -> ../all/foobar-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz x86_64/foobar-1.2.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> ../all/foobar-1.2.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz any/foobaz-4.5.6-1-any.pkg.tar.gz -> ../all/foobaz-4.5.6-1-any.pkg.tar.gz all/foobar-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz all/foobar-1.2.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz all/foobaz-4.5.6-1-any.pkg.tar.gz > > As mentioned above - this will reduce the amount of traffic during > package moves between repos. > The negative side is that this will need one-time redownload of all > packages by mirrors, > though this can be avoided by manual moving of the files by mirror admin > (need to be done in this way: wait until /all syncing starts, kill rsync, > move packages manually, start rsync). > > BTW I always wondered why we have that silly "os" subdir. > Would be nice to get rid of it during this big mirroring change (if > it'll happen). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
