Re: mirror the Packages files _after_ the packages!

[Martin Zobel-Helas <mhelas@helas.net>]

Hi Jeroen,

> How mirrors do their mirroring is up to the local mirror administrator,
> not to the general debian developer's community. Debian could promote
> this two-phase mirroring a bit more maybe, and/or provide nice scripts,
> that's probably why #6786 is still open.
> 
> BUT DEBIAN CANNOT IN ANY WAY FORCE/CONTROL HOW MIRRORS OPERATE,
> especially not the secundary mirrors.

But Debian could at least offer an updated rsync-script. Its over a
month ago, i posted an updated script to debian-www@l.d.o but noone yet
cared and updated it.

Greetings
Martin
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