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[Ian Burrell]

On 7/18/06, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >>>>> "sv" == seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> writes:
>
> sv> I'm open to other suggestions.
>
> Just ask the mirrors to --exclude repomd.xml and then rsync it at the
> end?  It ups the load on the server, though; twice the directory
> traversals.
>

There is also the --delay-updates option to rsync.  It causes rsync to
put all the updates in a temporary directory and moves them into place
at the end.  The move is fast which makes the update more atomic.

 - Ian