Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:31:52 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to copy packages-4.6.2-release tree to packages-4-stable ? Message-ID: <20020821033152.GA35016@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208211323020.2498-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> References: <20020821032116.GA34817@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208211323020.2498-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au>
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:26:00PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:25:32AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > > > > 3. rm -rf packages-4-stable > > > > ln -s packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable > > > > > > personally yes, for now. except why can't you do: > > > > > > mv packages-4-stable .p4stable.old > > > ln -s packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable > > > rm -rf .p4stable.old .... > > I don't follow why that could happen. The packages-4-stable tree already > > exists. > > because the contents of packages-4.6.2-release and packages-4-stable > are totally different in a mirroring sense. > > so what i think will happen if you implement it as you said: > o mirrors will delete 5G of 4.6.2 stable they just took a while to fetch > o then mirrors will redownload it all into packages-4-stable, where you > have just copied it all to. > > so there will be a refetch of 5G to a lot of mirrors. > > if it is done the other way, then there will be a deletion of 5G, but > no refetch required. > > it is entirely possible i misunderstood something though and i have the > flu at the moment, so please excuse any incoherency. I think you're reading my ln'ing in #3 backards. Noone should be deleting the 5G of 4.6.2 stable they just fetched. I propose to remove the packages-4-stable directory tree in its entirty. Then I will create a new "packages-4-stable" that is a symlink pointing to the "packages-4.6.2-release" directory tree. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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