Re: Is dists/sid/main/by-hash/SHA256/ correct?

On 16637 March 1977, Jeffery Carr wrote:
> There are lots and lots of files like this:
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/dists/sid/main/by-hash/SHA256/

Yes, the actual files with contents. If you check the mirror trees, you
will find that all the Packages.gz|xz and Release and Contents and
whatnot files are symlinks to them.

> I'm confused about these files. They are big and change a lot.

Yep, 4 times a day.

> Does anyone else ignore them when running rsync?

That would break your mirror, as you would miss out the actual content 
of dists/ files.