Bug 43945

Summary:	improvement for reducing mirror traffic next time when a release become history
Product:	Mirrors	Reporter:	Alin Năstac (RETIRED) <mrness>
Component:	Feature Request	Assignee:	Mirror Admins <mirror-admin>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-07 03:28:31 UTC

directories and/or subdirectories of /releases should be symlinks in order to avoid unecessary traffic whenever a release become history.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-07 12:36:25 UTC

Not all mirror sites have symlinks enabled (or want to).

Comment 2 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-07 13:19:58 UTC

No problem. Those mirrors will re-download files anyway, but why we all suffer the same? If I like to optimize my traffic, I should have a chance (namely put --links in rsync command).

Comment 3 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-14 18:55:14 UTC

This might be a future feature request, but it would require a great deal of testing beforehand to ensure that things work properly. If it were to be enabled, adopted widely and then proved to be problematic, that could be disastrous for us. While we may look at this in the future, it is not a priority for us now as there are many other things that take precedence over this. As such, closing as later.  (And it should be treated as "Later (maybe)"). Thanks for the input!

For Infrastructure,
Jeffrey