On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:32:49PM -0500, Steven Pritchard wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:34:21PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > > It was useful for me to be able to go back and fetch all the older > > kernel updates to see which one broke qemu. > > > > So I would say that it would be useful to have older updates available. > > They don't have to be in the same directory, of course. > > ISTR this comes up on mirror-list-d occasionally, and the preferred > solution seems to be what you are suggesting. > > An obsolete-updates directory could be easily --exclude'd, and people > who need to back out an update for whatever reason would still have > the old updates available. >From a mirroring perspective, it is much more efficient to have an all-updates directory containing all the real files, and a latest-updates directory containing only symlinks to the newest files in the other directory. That way rsync can sync the symlinks with --delete and you don't have to download the files again when they become obsolete and would otherwise be moved between directories.
