On 3/27/2015 1:56 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > It is indeed a symlink ... and it will indeed be shifted. > > People also really should use rsync with the -H option for hardlinks as > that will save much space between releases as well. (Almost all the > items in the 'cr' repo, 'os' repo, and 'fasttrack' repo from the > 7.0.1406 tree will make up the new os repo in the newer 7.1.1503 tree.) > > If you are not using -H, you have to download each RPM more than once. rsync from $job is incredibly slow and unreliable and frequently errored out partway through the process. I switched to lftp some time ago but just realized that it wasn't handling symlinks properly (although all indications are that it should be). A possible complication may be that I just moved my local mirror from a old Solaris 10 system to a new FreeNAS (FreeBSD) system, and am using the lftp from freeBSD 9.3 'ports', whihc is lftp version 4.6.1. The old solaris system had LFTP 4.0.10 -- john, recycling bits in santa cruz