On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, at 21:02, Marc Espie wrote: > > The concept you need to understand is snapshot shearing. > > A full package snapshot is large enough that it's hard to guarantee that > you will have a full snapshot on a mirror at any point in time. > > In fact, you will sometimes encounter a mix of two snapshots (not that often, > recently, but still) > > Hence, the decision to not have a central index for all packages, but to > keep (and trust) the actual meta-info within the packages proper. >
Sorry, I guess I should've responded to this as well. Isn't snapshot shearing going to be a problem regardless of the existence of a single central-index? For instance, pkg_add notices a chromium update, which requires a newer version of a dependency that hasn't been propagated to the mirror yet.
