> >> > One thing I can chime in on here is that the mirror folks sure do like > the idea of uploading to a staging area then copying to the desired > location. It benefits their server side scripts to do this since an > upload could take much longer time than a server side copy operation. > I'm not sure how rsync handles partially complete uploaded files, but I > know the signature scripts Henning is running via cron will generate an > md5 for a partial file. Then when you upload your md5 they clearly don't > match. Though this is a shortfall of his script, uploading to a staging > area just seems more robust in the long run. >
Good to know, thanks. Right now we are focusing on downloading jars from a pre-populated repository (kindly managed by folks such as yourself. :-) regards Adam
