If you use rsync to mirror then to add --max-delete=50 to the rsync command would have limited the damage done. If you use other means to mirror then ignore this.
On Monday 25 November 2002 04:40 pm, Robert Fox wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 22:35, Ben Reser wrote: > > FYI to all you people who mirror cooker's contribs. > > Someone moved contribs. It used to be in contrib/RPMS and i586 > > symlinked to that directory. Now it's in contrib/i586 and RPMS symlinks > > to the i586 dir. > > > > It would have been nice if someone at Mandrake had let us know *BEFORE* > > making this change. It would have saved me a 1.3GB re-download of the > > stuff I already had. > > DITTO!! This is not the first time someone has changed things on a > mirror without telling anyone - Thank GOD I have a 2Mb DSL . . . still > very painful!
