Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:46:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: jason@dstc.edu.au (jason andrade) Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to copy packages-4.6.2-release tree to packages-4-stable ? Message-ID: <200208211346.g7LDk0Jf075922@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208212331230.2498-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> from "jason andrade" at Aug 21, 2002 11:31:48 PM
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jason andrade wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Whatever you do -- *please* no hardlinks. > > They are a PITA to mirror. > > i guess it depends on what mirror technology you use. mirror.pl > hates hardlinks. rsync loves them.. I use omi (ports/ftp/omi), because I don't trust rsync. Also, the servers which I'm mirroring from don't support rsync (I don't have access to ftp-master). Omi mirrors hardlink as separate files, because there is no easy way to detect hardlinks via FTP in a portable way. Unfortunately, the FTP protocol wasn't designed with mirroring in mind. Regards Oliver (maintainer of ftp7.de.freebsd.org) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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