Re: update anonftpsync

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:46:11 +0100, Josip wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20080226134611.GA25476@keid.carnet.hr>:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:01:34AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> 
> > --delay-updates --delete-after
> > I don't know if either of these are strictly necessary.  AFAICT
> > think the 2nd rsync invocation can just use --del.
> 
> --delay-updates helps the atomicity of updates, see the manual.
> --delete-after is necessary so that it doesn't first delete files and
> then bring in new ones.

..one argument in favor of --del alias --delete-during, AFAIUI, 
is --delete-after is quite hard on mirror disk space.  

..will --del toss away each old .deb etc immediately _after_ 
each new one .deb is in, or immediately _before_?

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