Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:48:25 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.8 i386 packages uploaded Message-ID: <20030326004825.GA7580@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303252307200.12436-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> References: <20030325060738.GA3313@rot13.obsecurity.org> <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303251643260.12436-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> <20030325014010.C208@freebsdmall.com> <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303252307200.12436-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com>
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--wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:14:17PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > we try and automate parts of the mirroring but prefer to do the > syncing of new releases in most cases manually for a couple of > reasons (perhaps some now historical) >=20 > o we can't keep an exact duplicate of what is on ftp-master at all > times, e.g for disk space reasons. Excluding parts of the tree in rsync/cvsup can't be that difficult to maintain. > o we have had issues in the past with updates taking so long in some > cases that they rolled into each other. Your update script should have a lockfile around it to exclude more than one simultaneous update. > o a large chunk of the freebsd site doesn't seem to change anyway > and i guess we could just exclude it from an automatic mirror > process but it has been easier to simply manually sync up new > stuff via scripts. Parts of the tree that have not changed should take a negligible amount of time to update...that's a big part of what makes rsync/cvsup useful for mirroring! Kris --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+gPjYWry0BWjoQKURAhoBAKCffNZ4bzNwR0FqGjw/SWjc+x9REQCg9img bJ9hEuyX5I2X8T6Afkcl/qA= =yXwQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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