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Re: What happened to debian ftp site timestamps?



Rick Macdonald writes:
> 
> Actually, there is an option in mirror, -T, that will force all the timestamps
> on the local end to be set to the source times. I'll probably just to that.

Now y'all tell me ;)

> Am I safe and correct in assuming that debian files _never_ get changed, no 
> matter how trivial, without changing the version number in the .deb file name?

Right.

> Mirror has an option (get_newer=false) that will ignore the timestamps and 
> only transfer new files or files whose sizes have changed. One could go this 
> route if my assumption above is safe.

Yes.

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