* Kevin Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-13 15:56]:
> of discussing information we'd like from auric, what's on my mind
> today is the ability to check the NEW queue.
> 
> Thus, if the ftpmasters are planning on a long-term restriction on
> auric, mirroring the data in the new queue [at least filenames and
> upload dates] would be of significant help to me.

* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-14 03:13]:
> I frequently find myself running 'locate' over the morgue and poking
> around in the results in an attempt to figure out when a package was
> removed and what it looked like when it was, usually when working on

Right, I use both the new queue and the morgue as well.  If auric
remains restricted, these directories should definitely be mirrored.

> I'm not sure whether this is solvable without exporting the morgue,
> which I'm aware would be a big slice of some machine's resources.

Files in the morgue could be expired on a more frequent basis than
those on the mirror.  Then we'd all have access to it, but it wouldn't
take up the same resources on both machines.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
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