Re: mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-16 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
On 8/15/06, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: On 8/14/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz -

Re: mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-15 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
On 8/14/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz - foo-1.0p0.tgz). No boom here, unless the maintaner was lazy. No, /usr/lib changes don't bump patchlevels of every package.

Re: mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-15 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: On 8/14/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz - foo-1.0p0.tgz). No boom here, unless the maintaner was

Re: mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: On 8/14/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz - foo-1.0p0.tgz). No boom here, unless the maintaner was

mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-14 Thread Andreas Bartelt
Hi, is there a simple way to efficiently mirror packages solely based on package filenames in order to reduce bandwidth overhead? I've tried to do this with rsync but as packages are constantly rebuilt, file size of packages changes regularly, and, therefore, the rsync option '--size-only'

Re: mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-14 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote: I'd like to sync packages solely based on their file name. Is there a way to do this with rsync or with another tool? lftp (ports/net) has a mirror option who can be told to ignore both sizes and times. this might yield an

Re: mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-14 Thread Will Maier
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote: is there a simple way to efficiently mirror packages solely based on package filenames in order to reduce bandwidth overhead? A bit of shell/Perl scripting could compare the index.txt on the FTP mirror with what you have

Re: mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-14 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote: Hi, is there a simple way to efficiently mirror packages solely based on package filenames in order to reduce bandwidth overhead? I've tried to do this with rsync but as packages are constantly rebuilt, file size of

Re: mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-14 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
On 8/14/06, Tobias Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote: Hi, is there a simple way to efficiently mirror packages solely based on package filenames in order to reduce bandwidth overhead? I've tried to do this with rsync but as

Re: mirroring packages without much bandwidth overhead

2006-08-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz - foo-1.0p0.tgz). No boom here, unless the maintaner was lazy. No, /usr/lib changes don't bump patchlevels of every package.