No Frozen Rawhide

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 19:35:06 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:55:27AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> You actually want overlap for a while so that when rsyncing you can use
>> hardlinks instead of having to redownload files you already have.
>> This is going to be more relevant if koji signing happens and packages don't
>> get different signatures depending on which repo they are in.
>
>That would be nice for updates/updates-testing moves too.
>For that, I've thought it might work to put them all in updates/.all or
>someplace, with updates/... or updates/testing/... being hardlinks to that.

Releases prior to F-11 wouldn't benefit from that at all, as the RPMs
actually change when going from updates-testing to updates due to being
signed with different keys.

That might be worth looking into once F-10 dies.

josh




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