Re: Mirrors et al.
Kevin M Bealer wrote:
> > > mirror preserves ownership & permissions, doesn't it?
> According to man mirror, it does not, instead a program called 'rdist' is
> required.
Mirror, most importantly, preserves the datestamp which is needed alongside
the filename to determine whether the file should be copied or not. Ownership
and permissions are a local site issue and can be set up in the packages
config file (well ownership is, permissions may well be the default umask).
My query which affects public and private mirrors;
Is it necessary to have future versions of Debian at all ? Now that the major
upgrade from a.out to ELF is nearly complete, why does there have to be a v1.2,
v1.3 or v2.0 series of Debian distributions ? Could there not be just "the one
true heirarchy" of well though out package areas then a future snapshot of the
dir tree at any point in time is legit ?
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Mark Constable (+61 7 55275724) mailto:mc@vv.com.au http://vv.com.au/mc
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