On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 10:39:21AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > This makes me think about dropping the symlinks completely. > > > > So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all distributions are > > simply a packages file with the relevant constellation. > > This makes it impossible for people with just a few GB of disk space, but > not 15, to mirror only the version of debian they are interested in.
Or the other way round. This makes it possible for people to mirror anything with a lot of flexibility, because all packages are easily available from the pool. Of course, not with our current mirroring tools. But a little perl magic can distill any set of packages fulfilling some regex if the various Packages files are available. I agree that it makes it impossible to mirror "just unstable" with a single wget or rsync invocation. But it would be an interesting project to write a much better mirror tool, which now can exploit the full flexibility of a packaging pool. Of course, for a transition period, it is important to stil have the symlinks, and I am glad you reminded me of this problem. However, this can easily piggypack on the mroe flexible pool solution. Thanks, Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>