On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:35:12 +0800 goodmenzy@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Is it possible? > > advantage: > 1 The mirrors do not need download the total new pkgs if it just > updated several files. rsync does this too > 2 old versions of package can be retrived. YAGNI > 3 GIT is fast. rsync is too > 4 It seems cool! rsync is more suited for the job > > dis-advantage: > 1 It is a torture of GIT > 2 Huge of works to be done. I think a big improvemt will be when we fix it so that if we move packages from testing to extra/core, mirrors will not see as a "file remove and a new file", which causes a lot of unneeded traffic. if we make this system use symlinks or whatever this can be handled much better. but other then that, I think the current syncing system is fine. (the "getting" part is something different. see tiered setup,mirrorbrain etc. discussions) Dieter
