From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Aug 20 20:26: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE41E37B400; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD1A43E3B; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from sunburn.dstc.edu.au (sunburn.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.16]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7L3Q14P008180; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:26:01 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:26:00 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: "David O'Brien" Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to copy packages-4.6.2-release tree to packages-4-stable ? In-Reply-To: <20020821032116.GA34817@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checked: SPAMASSASSIN: This message probably not SPAM X-Spam-Score: -4.5, Required: 5 X-Virus-Scanned: Message: ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.9 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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