Mirroring: Bad datestamps prevent hardlinking

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:14 -0600, William Stockall wrote:
> Re-download or re-calculate check sums?  If the files are actually
> the 
> same except for the timestamp, all that should be downloaded by rsync
> is 
> the check sum.  Is that a problem by itself?  Plus, changing the 
> timestamp is likely to trigger a sync with the mirrors just the same
> as 
> actually changing the files.
> 

Yes, but if it only does the checksums as you say than it won't be bad.
I'll try a couple packages and see what it actually downloads.

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