[mirror-admin] Seeding newkeys with old content?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 11:51:15AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:44:32AM +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 08:34:46AM +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > does it make sense to seed the new rpms with the old signed ones?
> > > Would rsync note the change of a few bytes (the lead-in/out) and could
> > > it save the sync from redownloading the contents? Did anyone give it a
> > > test?
> > 
> > Doing cp -al before running rsync helps a lot on my side.

I'm trying this, still syncing.

> Excellent.  Can the master .newkey directories please start out as a 
> hardlinked tree of the original directories for a few days before 
> pushing out the re-signed content?

That's impossible, the files *are* different. cp -al is just for a
faster seeding, it wouldn't make an rsync difference if it were w/o
the -l.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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