Adam Cheal wrote: > Sometime its the simple things...redirecting TMPDIR to a decent sized drive > allowed me to pull down the "entire" package recursively. It took over 12 > hours to retrieve it all, but definitely worth it as my local repo is > blindingly fast for AI install now. For those that attempt it, you'll need at > least 15GB of space to pull down all the "temporary" packages that are part > of "entire", but once republished they only take up about 5G of space on the > repo. I'm assuming this is because they are retrieved in an "uncompressed" > format, then recompressed on publish?
Right. The server only accepts compressed files for publishing currently. The publication tools, as I mentioned before, weren't really designed for mass-mirroring like this. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
