Kevin M Bealer wrote: > > > mirror preserves ownership & permissions, doesn't it?
> According to man mirror, it does not, instead a program called 'rdist' is > required. Mirror, most importantly, preserves the datestamp which is needed alongside the filename to determine whether the file should be copied or not. Ownership and permissions are a local site issue and can be set up in the packages config file (well ownership is, permissions may well be the default umask). My query which affects public and private mirrors; Is it necessary to have future versions of Debian at all ? Now that the major upgrade from a.out to ELF is nearly complete, why does there have to be a v1.2, v1.3 or v2.0 series of Debian distributions ? Could there not be just "the one true heirarchy" of well though out package areas then a future snapshot of the dir tree at any point in time is legit ? -- Mark Constable (+61 7 55275724) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vv.com.au/mc
