> >> But it would be nice if the mirrors carried some kind of >> generation-number >> which yum checked. > > That would only tell you that the file with the generation-number had > been synced. It wouldn't tell you that all of the rpms had been. > > -sv > I see. So the rsyncing on the mirrors is done on the live files, there's no script trickery to only put the whole tree live when the mirror is synced? Fair enough.