Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Mon, 6 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Bernd> Hi, perhpas somebody can help me. How do I tell mirror the Tiezone > > Bernd> of the Remote Host? If I want to mirror master, ftp and a german > > Bernd> site mirror alway compares different times. Any good solutions? > > > > That has been bugging me as well when I switched from ftp.debian.org to some > > other mirror during the hick-ups at ftp.debian.org. It would be really nice > > if we could store files dates in UTC (GMT) rather than in localtime. > > Over the last few days my mirror started retransferring everything again. > I didn't bother to figure out why; I finally went and added the > get_newer=false parameter to my setup. > > New files and files whose _sizes_ change still get transferred. > > I just hope that people stick to the "rule" never to update a file > without incrementing the version number in the file name.
I'd like to retract my own suggestion. It occured to me that there are many non-.deb files such as Packages, Contents and the floppy_disk files. These don't have names with version numbers. These files can be updated without changing the file sizes. This is especially true with the floppy_disk files since they are always split on a size of 1474560. Setting the time stamps of these files with -T will lose. So, for me this is still an issue. Any more ideas? -- ...RickM...
