Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

[email protected] (Ask Bjørn Hansen)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 25, 2010, at 13:23, Eric Wilhelm 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?

Most CPAN mirrors use rsync.  It's not realistic to make them change that ("Hello all mirror operators -- so that tool that you use for ALL YOUR MIRRORS; well ... maybe you can use something else for us?").

rsync is all disk i/o -- relatively negligible network and CPU.


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