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

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 9:13 AM Joerg Jaspert <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
Fantastic. Thanks to both of you.

This is a difficult problem & I think I understand further why it works the
way it does.

Jeff
Unimportant question: Is the 4 times a day thing why the preferred mirror
sync concept was changed to a push notification vs pull?