Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
* Marco d'Itri (md@Linux.IT) [050319 18:40]:
> On Mar 19, Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > What's wrong with splitting into ftp-full-monty.d.o, carrying all archs,
> > including the popular ones, and ftp.d.o, carrying only the most popular
> > subset? This way, there's no need to mirror from both of them, and
> > duplication is kept to a minimum. Slightly increased traffic from the
> > fullblown server is the only drawback I see compared to the ports
> > proposal.
> That on some servers I'd like to mirror both archives, and I'd rather
> not waste a few GB on duplicated files.
I don't know if it's a good idea, but it might make use to write a
customized "mirror" script that just creates the appropriate symlinks on
the partial mirrors on your machine again.
Cheers,
Andi
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