[mirror-admin] missing and extraneous files at kernel.org

[Carlos Carvalho]

J.H. (warthog19 at eaglescrag.net) wrote on 8 August 2009 15:00:
 >We don't, and never have, included any of the index.html files from 
 >upstream, that will not be fixed,

Why? That sounds arbitrary. If you're a tier-1 mirror you should
replicate upstream, not decide on its contents. You can only exclude
whole portions of the tree due to resource limitation. This is not the
case for a few small files.

 >specifically those files aren't used for anything.

But we never know what downstream or users may want to do...

I also feel tempted to do this (particularly with that massive and
nearly useless fullfilelist) but up to now have [painfully] resisted :-)

 >As for the broken symlinks I will get those dealt with, 
 >but that is an exciting problem of syncing from the master servers that 
 >sometimes they don't fully cleanup their entire tree.

However these have disappeared from the master more than a day ago. Or
maybe there's a difference between the masters.

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