> From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 November 2002 22:28
>> 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? >> >> Or what's the right approach here? > > I suggest moving the old directory out of dist completely and instead > put old distributions under history.apache.org (not mirrored). That > way the rsync'ers don't have to sync gigabytes and will simply delete > the files that are no longer worth being mirrored. Lets move this to infrastructure@. Justin already put together a nice lineout of what the directory layout could look like at: http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html Sander
