* Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060607 19:25]:
> When mirror space is tight and you haven't updated for a few days the
> space needed to download all uploads before the obsolete debs are
> deleted can be too much. It would be nice if one could skip
> downloading debs and just clean up or cleanup before downloading.
That's a relatively tough one that would need quite some changes and
imposes a high propability of inconsistent data when done poorly.
(I think the only sane way would be to remove all packages to be
upgraded in a first step from the distributions, as keeping the package
descriptions while the file references already deleted leads to
inevitable inconsistencies. Then suppressing a export of that stripped
down distributions (which is easy), followed by the downloading and
installation of the new packages, with the hard part to also export
those targets where only deletions occoured and no new things were
added. With this the worst thing that can happen when errors occour is
packages vanishing instead of getting upgraded.)
Also note that when deleting things first, any client trying to use the
mirror while things are downloaded (which would be relatively lengthy in
this case when this matters), will either not find any Packages files
(when they are deleted first) or get Packages files listing files no
longer downloadable (as already deleted)). So I really think getting
more disk space is very adviseable, even when this feature gets
implemented.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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