On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:05, Thomas Bächler<[email protected]> wrote: > Roman Kyrylych schrieb: >> >> The negative side is that this will need one-time redownload of all >> packages by mirrors, > > Which will take several weeks!
True >> 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). > > This can be avoided if we (instead of moving everything at once), just start > doing this for new packages and leave the old ones where they are. There is > no need to resync already synced packages. Good point! >> 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). > > So, you also want to break user's configurations now? Why fix something that > isn't broken? Workaround by another symlink (<repo>/os -> ../)? :-P I agree that this is just cosmetics (extra /os/ is ugly IMO), so this is not that important. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
