RE: Outdated woody-i386.list file
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Atterer [SMTP:deb-cd@list.atterer.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:04 PM
> To: 'debian-cd@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: Re: Outdated woody-i386.list file
>
> > 4). There seems to me that there is a problem with using 'current'
> > on the CD's. On the ftp servers this is a sym-link but on the ISO it
> > appears just to be a duplicate set of data. Can someone please
> > confirm this?
>
> I haven't downloaded any ISOs recently - on my old potato CD,
> "dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current" is a symlink to another name in
> the same directory. But note that somehow mkisofs seems to be able to
> create "hard directory links"; maybe the data isn't actually
> duplicated.
[Simon Wood]
I've checked and yes they are symlinked on the Official
CD (Potato 2.2.2) I have, but there is an issue here.
The un-official '.list' contain both a dated-directory and
a current-directory. This results in the same file(s) being
downloaded twice. If I use Potato as an example of the
amount of data contained in these directories, this would
result in a extra 129MByte being downloaded and then thrown
away rsync, which is rather wasteful...
I can send a brief log file showing the problem if required.
Who is building the '.list' files and how??
The '.list' for the Official (i.e. Potato) only contains
references to 'current', even though on the official ISO
'current' is a symlink to 'dated-directory' - though I don't
think the order make much difference.
Apologies if I'm being a bit (too) pedantic about this....
Simon W.
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