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Re: new 'older' files on ftp.debian.org?



On Tue, 7 May 1996, Karl Ferguson wrote:

> At 12:57 PM 5/6/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >Just as a side note I just noticed that I received about 200megs from 
> >master in last few days..
> 
> Oh dear.  More saturation for the mirrors...  Mirror sites might want to add
> get_newer=false from now on if this is going to happen often (including you
> perhaps, Matt...).

Errm.  "get_newer=false" is fine for .deb files since they are all
version-numbered. But what about the rest of the stuff on the Debian
archive? The README's, the doc/ documentation, etc. Or do I not understand
what "get_newer" means?

    Christian


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