Re: Is dists/sid/main/by-hash/SHA256/ correct?

[Jeffery Carr <basilarchia@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 9:13 AM Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> wrote:

On 16637 March 1977, Jeffery Carr wrote:
> There are lots and lots of files like this:
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/dists/sid/main/by-hash/SHA256/

Yes, the actual files with contents. If you check the mirror trees, you
will find that all the Packages.gz|xz and Release and Contents and
whatnot files are symlinks to them.

> I'm confused about these files. They are big and change a lot.

Yep, 4 times a day.

Fantastic. Thanks to both of you.

This is a difficult problem & I think I understand further why it works the way it does.

Jeff

Unimportant question: Is the 4 times a day thing why the preferred mirror sync concept was changed to a push notification vs pull?