Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:26:00 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to copy packages-4.6.2-release tree to packages-4-stable ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208211323020.2498-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20020821032116.GA34817@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:25:32AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > > > 3. rm -rf packages-4-stable > > > ln -s packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable > > > > personally yes, for now. except why can't you do: > > > > mv packages-4-stable .p4stable.old > > ln -s packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable > > rm -rf .p4stable.old > > > > this way any mirrors automatically getting that whole tree (i cannot > > afford this anymore - it's got way too many issues which break stuff > > for us) will NOT have to refetch an entire tree and will just delete > > about 5G of stuff. > > I don't follow why that could happen. The packages-4-stable tree already > exists. because the contents of packages-4.6.2-release and packages-4-stable are totally different in a mirroring sense. so what i think will happen if you implement it as you said: o mirrors will delete 5G of 4.6.2 stable they just took a while to fetch o then mirrors will redownload it all into packages-4-stable, where you have just copied it all to. so there will be a refetch of 5G to a lot of mirrors. if it is done the other way, then there will be a deletion of 5G, but no refetch required. it is entirely possible i misunderstood something though and i have the flu at the moment, so please excuse any incoherency. regards, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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