On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:06:35 -0500 Andrew Antle <andrew.antle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I must be missing something.. isn't --delete-after good enough? Dieter
