Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > I think "mv unstable <new-name>" would be a much better solution to try.
>
> That would be a problem for the mirror sites. They would have to mirror
> the entire thing all over again. Mirrors aren't smart enough to understand
> that you have "mv"-ed a directory hierarchy.
That was actually a suggestion for mirror site maintainers, not the
distribution maintainers. It was to have a mirror follow a change instead
of re-fetching everything. Tar is a better solution if the original
structure must continue to exist.
> Then, once all of the mirrors have had time to get "in-sync", we will
> create the symbolic link debian-1.1 -> code_name . That way, the
> release will not appear in half-mirrored fashion on these systems.
Q: Will "unstable" remain a directory or will it also become a symlink
to the next code-name?
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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