On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:22, Johnny Hughes wrote: > We have upgraded the rsync used on the centos mirrors to a version >= > 2.6.4 so that we can use the --delay-updates flag for rsyncing. > > This flag (if you have rsync >= 2.6.4) will download all the updates, > then move them into place ... so for items like yum repos, there is a > much shorter time that the repo is not usable during long updates. If > you have rsync >= 2.6.4, we recommend you use this switch for CentOS > rsyncs. Yes, indeed a very useful note. However if some mirrors do not use a recent rsync version and cannot upgrade for some reason there is another way to "simulate" the --delay-updates thingie: using a 2-pass mirror script. This method is explained for the Debian AMD64 mirror: http://amd64.debian.net/~joerg/mirror.html. Of course the first pass needs to be adjusted a little so the repodata.xml & friends will be excluded. Mihai -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/