also sprach Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> [2006.08.11.2326 +0100]:
> The algorithm used is 2pass. First pass only mirrors pool while the
> second pass mirrors the Release and Packages files. The time a mirror
> is out of sync should always be limited to the time it takes to
> download the Packages file after the Release file. All the index files
> are done in one chunk file to file. A matter of minutes at most.
Or almost 10 hours as was the case today.
So if rsync dies, maybe this is the problem to fix? Is it?
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