Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 13:23 -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # 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?

Forgive a lurker, but wasn't that the point of this:

    http://search.cpan.org/~andk/File-Rsync-Mirror-Recent-0.0.7/

When I saw that announced, I remember thinking "Yay, large archive rsync
problem solved!"  Did it not work out?


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