Re: debian.novare.net and mirrors

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu>]

David Engel wrote:
> 
> Many thanks to everyone involved in moving things from
> master.debian.org to debian.novare.net.
> 
> However, not surprisingly all of the file times in the ftp archive to
> have changed in the move.  This could cause havoc for mirrors by making
> them re-transfer everything.

People running mirrors, who have an account on debian.novare.net, might
want to consider using "rsync" to update their trees before running
mirror again.  It should be able to match up the file dates with a
minimal amount of net traffic.  

(It uses a rather nifty protocol that does the equivalent of "diff" 
while minimizing network traffic.)


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu


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