On 8/14/06, Tobias Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a simple way to efficiently mirror packages solely based on
> package filenames in order to reduce bandwidth overhead?
>
> I've tried to do this with rsync but as packages are constantly rebuilt,
> file size of packages changes regularly, and, therefore, the rsync
> option '--size-only' (which ignores timestamps) is insufficient for my
> purposes. I'd like to sync packages solely based on their file name. Is
> there a way to do this with rsync or with another tool?
>
> regards,
> Andreas
>
>
Bad idea
A package may need to be updated because a dependency changed -> BOOM :)
In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz ->
foo-1.0p0.tgz).
No boom here, unless the maintaner was lazy.
Tobias
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