On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 11:40:53AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Git is an interesting thought for incremental mirroring. But then it also > seems to be a poor choice for something that is an only growing repository > of data. the nice thing with git is that you get a signed tree for free (or rather, very easily with tools almost everybody understands), even though it atm only uses sha1 hashes. IOW: it's a very simple blockchain, which has better properties than a simple file based mirror. > What I think should be a requirement is that the data is pushed out before > the mirror pulse. Otherwise you end up with a race where you try to mirror > the data including the buildinfo but can't access it. (It's a little > unfortunate that we don't simply put them onto the mirrors. agreed. -- cheers, Holger
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