On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 01:46:15PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > This makes me think about dropping the symlinks completely. > > > > > > So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all distributions > > > are > > > simply a packages file with the relevant constellation. > > > > This makes it impossible for people with just a few GB of disk space, but > > not 15, to mirror only the version of debian they are interested in. > > Maybe the answer to that is that we need better mirroring tools. It is > already hugely difficult to say just mirror 'potato' i386 because you need > to follow a forest of symlinks into slink! > > I don't think this is a real problem if the 'pools' are split up by arch > and by non-free/contrib/main.
ACK I find the symlinks between slink->sid and binary-arch -> binary-all partially annoying. I would like to have the packages pool with a single ascii file naming all packages and their version for a specific pool/release/devel-version. Someone could just for i in `cat file`; wget -m $base/$i; done ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice
