Re: More frequent dinstall runs and mirror pushes

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>]

Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Hi
>
> as the subject says, we are planning to increase the frequency of
> dinstall[1] runs. Our current plan is to have 4 runs a day, switching
> From the current [07|19]:52 schedule to the new [01|07|13|19]:52
> schedule. All times are in UTC.
>
> For the mirror network, this means two more pushes a day, but from
> current experience this is manageable. If we ever go to more than four
> runs our mirror network needs a different setup, as current rsync
> deficiencies[2] do not easily allow more frequent pushes.
>
>
> I plan to switch to the new schedule in 2 weeks.

But so it will add new "Packages.diff/ files" ?

I propose to do this after lenny release, when we will have
more packages in the queue, and possibly a new way to handle
the "Packages.diff/".
I don't think that such diffs are designed for a lot of updates.

ciao
	cate