On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Hannes Rist <hrist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ionut Biru wrote: >> >> On 02/02/2010 07:53 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >>>>> >>>>> There's also the problem that some mirrors (most of the ones I've >>>>> tried) sync the package database before syncing all the packages. >>>> >>>> Actually, syncing the db last is not going to improve things: if some >>>> packages get deleted, they won't be found when updating against the >>>> old db. >>> >>> - download new packages >>> - update db >>> - delete old packages >>> >> >> now tell us how do this order with rsync. > > the debian mirror scripts have such a staged setup with 2 rsync runs, might > wanna have a look at them mirror.debian.org somewhere here. > http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror 'how to mirror' it's explained there. from http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror#how ... * MUST perform a 2-stage sync ... Rationale: if archive mirroring is done in a single stage, there will be periods of time during which the index files will reference files not yet mirrored. ... Sounds pretty good, Hannes. -- Andrew Antle <andrew dot antle at gmail dot com>
