On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:36:50 +0100 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, what I meant was that difference between having package pool to > which packages are linked and sending some text file to all servers > saying "Hi, please move package foo-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz from > [testing] to [core]" which would result in something * like "mv > testing/foo-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz core/". Both would send only a > list of files which should be moved. that would require custom scripting. it's much more convenient to use symlinks. rsync supports symlinks, no need to reinvent the wheel. Dieter