On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:44:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > rsync -av --progress --delay-updates -a > > --files-from :indices/files/arch-i386.files \ > > --delete --delete-after --max-delete=1000 \ > > rsync://MIRROR/debian/ ./ > The file list currently sorts dists/ near the top of the list. If it > were reordered so that dists was listed last then mirrors updating this > way would not have bug #6786. You're already half way there with the > --delete-after.
As it turns out, rsync seems to just reorder the stuff alphabetically anyway. Changed anyway. > Closing such an old bug is sure to appeal, so I thought I'd mention it. > :-) --delay-updates gets pretty close to the right behaviour though. Note that anonftpsync already handles this specially. Cheers, aj
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