> From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 November 2002 18:26
> At 10:14 AM 11/26/2002, Aaron Bannert wrote: > >Oh, and for the record, moving files into .old/ directories is > >evil for rsync. :) (This isn't directed at Pier) Moving files > >around causes rsync to do a delete and then re-download the > >moved files/directories. > > So you suggest initially populating old/ and then symlinking the > now-current version in the main download directory at the old/ > target, instead? It would still initially download the package > twice, and then simply unlink it later on, right? No. It would only download the package once and create (or update) a symlink locally. For people only mirrorring the latest versions, they can pass a certain flag to rsync so that symlinks outside of the area being mirrorred are replaced by the full packages. I presented a scheme like this in a reply to a thread on mirrors. Pier has got that documented somewhere, I am sure ;) Sander PS. Bikeshedding: s/old/archive/
