[Cooker] Fwd: Dumb upgrade policy at uninett.no

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Ruskin 

I've been asked not to cc mirrors stuff to the Cooker mailing list but I 
believe there will be some interest in this here.

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Subject: Dumb upgrade policy at uninett.no
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:34:09 +
From: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mirrors [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I, like many others, get my Mandrake local mirrors using Rod Stodden's
and Troels Liebe Bentsen's rsync scripts.  The main bonus of these
scripts is the renaming of local mirror files as they get upgraded, prior
to download.  This means that if Mandrale updates foo-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
to foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm, the local mirror copy is renamed to
foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm and we only download the difference, not the
complete file.

Now I keep seeing messages like this:
receiving file list ... done
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libarts2-devel-2.2.2-19mdk.i586.rpm

...which means that the remote mirror is deleting foo-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
before loading foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm.

Could you please get the mirrors to reverse this process? - that is load
new rpm then delete old rpm.

I believe this may be happening on sunet.se as well.

Regards
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Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ).
Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586
Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin,  XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk.
KDE: 2.2.2.  Qt: 2.3.2.  Uptime 1 day 3 hours 47 minutes.
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Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ).
Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586
Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin,  XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk.
KDE: 2.2.2.  Qt: 2.3.2.  Uptime 1 day 4 hours 3 minutes.
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Re: [Cooker] Fwd: Dumb upgrade policy at uninett.no

2002-01-06 Thread Mircea Ciocan 

At last, some one did this :), Peter can you share those scripts with
us those scripts ???

Mircea C.



Peter Ruskin wrote:
 
 I've been asked not to cc mirrors stuff to the Cooker mailing list but I
 believe there will be some interest in this here.
 
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 Subject: Dumb upgrade policy at uninett.no
 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:34:09 +
 From: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Mirrors [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 I, like many others, get my Mandrake local mirrors using Rod Stodden's
 and Troels Liebe Bentsen's rsync scripts.  The main bonus of these
 scripts is the renaming of local mirror files as they get upgraded, prior
 to download.  This means that if Mandrale updates foo-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
 to foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm, the local mirror copy is renamed to
 foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm and we only download the difference, not the
 complete file.
 
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Re: [Cooker] Fwd: Dumb upgrade policy at uninett.no

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Ruskin 

On Sunday 06 Jan 2002 17:50, Mircea Ciocan wrote:
 At last, some one did this :), Peter can you share those scripts with
 us those scripts ???

   Mircea C.

They are at http://ains.net.au/~ronst/


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Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ).
Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586
Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin,  XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk.
KDE: 2.2.2.  Qt: 2.3.2.  Uptime 1 day 5 hours 26 minutes.
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