On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29/01/10 03:28, Dan McGee wrote: >> >> This is going to absolutely destroy gerolde and our mirrors with rsync >> backlog. We really need to start getting some of this out there if >> possible since when we move packages from [testing] to other repos, we >> don't have a symlink farm like we do with arch="any" packages. > > Didn't we have someone working on adjusting the db-scripts so all packages > went to a "package" directory and were symlinked to the repo? That would > save us much bandwidth and hassle with big rebuilds like these... > > Can anyone remember who that was and if it was started?
As far as I remember, it was purely an idea. No work was started. I will try to add it into the db-scripts next week sometime. It shouldn't be too much work, though the cleanup scripts will need to be reworked a bit
