Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
[email protected] (Eric Wilhelm)
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# from Ask Bjørn Hansen
# on Thursday 25 March 2010 08:55:
>> But solution to what? Are we convinced there's actually a problem
>> here?
>
>CPAN has almost 200k files. www.cpan.org says there are "17627
> modules". rsyncing a gazillion files doesn't work that well (on the
> server). Helping authors remember to delete things that are now
> irrelevant from the main CPAN system will make it easier to run
> mirrors and keep them fresh.
Maybe CPAN mirrors are more easily updated than via a generic rsync? Is
the burden only network/cpu for checking whether a bunch of old
archives have changed, or does disk matter?
--Eric
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