Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

On Mar 25, 2010, at 14:08, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote:

>> 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?

Yes - we use that for some/most of the central mirrors; but the other several thousand mirrors don't use it (for various good reasons).

It also (currently) doesn't support tiered mirrors; and it's not used for "CPAN"; only for the "PAUSE data" -- again for various good reasons.



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