I've been asked not to cc mirrors stuff to the Cooker mailing list but I believe there will be some interest in this here.
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Dumb upgrade policy at uninett.no Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:34:09 +0000 From: Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mirrors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I, like many others, get my Mandrake local mirrors using Rod Stodden's and Troels Liebe Bentsen's rsync scripts. The main bonus of these scripts is the renaming of local mirror files as they get upgraded, prior to download. This means that if Mandrale updates foo-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm to foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm, the local mirror copy is renamed to foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm and we only download the difference, not the complete file. Now I keep seeing messages like this: receiving file list ... done deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libarts2-devel-2.2.2-19mdk.i586.rpm ...which means that the remote mirror is deleting foo-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm before loading foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm. Could you please get the mirrors to reverse this process? - that is load new rpm then delete old rpm. I believe this may be happening on sunet.se as well. Regards -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Uptime 1 day 3 hours 47 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Uptime 1 day 4 hours 3 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------
