Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:52:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: dl@leo.org (Daniel Lang) Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Subject: Re: Amount of stuff to upload Message-ID: <200307010752.h617qpqN099327@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20030701073102.GC77826@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Daniel Lang" at Jul 01, 2003 09:31:02 AM
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Daniel Lang wrote: > I would say, more smaller uploads are better. The worst thing > to sync are always the package trees. They seem to take ages, > and this is always a big chunk. Releases and ISOs are harmless. > > I have no clue how to split up the package trees, though.... > Maybe by letter and have them synced in a few consecutive days? > Like: first day packages starting with a-g, 2nd h-m, etc. > Of course the letters should be chosen to match the distribution > of packages, to have sets of roughly equal size. > It should not take longer than 5 days, I'd say. Uhm, maybe I'm missing the point here, but what exactly is the problem with the package trees? I usually mirror a new package tree at once (using FTP, not CVSup), and it only takes a few hours. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law, from Profiles of the Future
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