Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
[email protected] (David Cantrell)
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:02:22PM -0800, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> Why use rsync, then? Why not have checkpointed logs on cpan with
> additions/removals logged by date so you can roll forward on the client,
> processing only those files? It would be trivial to set up and a lot more
> efficient.
Because the most important mirror sites mirror CPAN as just a very small
part of what they do. They won't want to have to use weird tools for
just that tiny corner of their disk.
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