On 2025-10-23 05:59:51, Shengqi Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: devuan-mirrors <devuan-mirrors-bounces@???> On Behalf Of
> > onefang
> > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 1:11 PM
> >
> > G'day, Devuan's package mirror herder here.
> >
> > I've been working on a new update script for Devuan package mirrors.
> >
> > https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/devuan_package_mirror_sync/
> >
> > Which tries to update a Devuan package mirror with minimal issues. It
> > should help prevent "this mirror is currently updating and might give
> > errors", or at least shrink that window down to fractions of a second.
>
> It looks rather like Debian's two-stage rsync used in ftpsync.

I've looked at ftpsync, it's much more complicated than what I think we
need, but yes a two stage rsync.

> And we (with my TUNA mirror's admin hat on) have also implemented our own version.

Go isn't one of my 100 programming languages, and I still haven't decided
what language 101 will be.

> I suppose devuan does not have much deviation with Debian's folder structure,
> so we could still re-use those mechanisms safely?

We could, but I'm trying to simplify and speed up things.

> Thanks,
> Shengqi Chen