Re: Changes to snapshot process ... ?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:25:19PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 03:53:22PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>
>>>Next question is gdb/snapshots/gdb+dejagnu.tar.bz2.
>>>
>>>Hmm, at present it is a hard link :-/  If it was a symlink would ftp 
>>>shadow systems be smart enough to copy the link and not the file?
>>
>>
>>Yes.  I have a symbolic link in the cygwin directory that seems to be
>>faithfully mirrored and there is a 'egcs -> gcc' link elsewhere that
>>has been around for a long time.  It also is mirrored correctly on
>>the sites that I looked at.
>
>Nice, if you look you'll notice that I used softlinks recklessly.  The 
>snapshots will slowly flush them.

One irritating thing that I noticed on some mirrors is that they don't
seem to notice deletions.  So, many sources.redhat.com directories are
slowly being filled with past snapshots that have since been purged from
our server.

cgf