Mirroring: Bad datestamps prevent hardlinking

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:09:05PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:27:18AM -0700, Greg Bailey wrote:
> > Jesse Keating wrote:
> > >On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 23:31 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > >>Could the parts that are mirrored from Red Hat be timestamped back to
> > >>their original values? For instance:
> > >>
> > >>58217 Oct 29  2003
> > >>download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-34.src.rpm
> > >>58217 Feb 27  2004
> > >>download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/1/os/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-34.src.rpm
> > >>
> > >>This would allow mirrors of both RH and FL to run hardlink over the
> > >>folders and rescue some bits.

> > >Got a good suggestion on how to do that w/out re-downloading every file
> > >from RH mirrors?

> > Wouldn't running rsync over the mirrored parts go fairly quickly if you 
> > already have the full fileset?  I recall doing this sort of thing when I 
> > was a RedHat mirror admin in a former life.  It didn't take long at all 
> > with the speedup rsync provides.
> 
> Yes, that would be the easiest. And if one wants to tune this, one can
> use the -B switch to rsync to use larger blocks for the checksums, but
> that's probably not neccessary.

why can't this be fixed? It affects > 1000 files wasting 3.2GB. And if
I fix it locally I'll be resyncing the bad timestamped packages again.

Here is the breakdown:
    866 download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/1/os/SRPMS/
    149 download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/1/updates/i386/
     39 download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/1/updates/SRPMS/

Please fix this, it's a simple rsync command. :(

Thanks!
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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