On Thursday 29 July 2004 02:26 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Actually, running a gentoo mirror myself (il1.rsync.gentoo.org), the way > gentoo handles the mirrors is to sync the distro several days in advance > with permissions preventing anyone (except us :-D ) from getting it, and > then rsyncing just the permission change. > > This allows more or less simultaneous release on all mirrors.
That's true for published ebuilds, but for an ebuild not yet in portage, or before the sync is complete, the method I described is what is used