On May 25, 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: > > Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only > > mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean > > it up a bit and let you have it. > > For a mere $20, with profits going to YAS?
That's a good idea. I'll be at YAPC ... maybe there will be some takers there. > If whatever OS you're usually using is happy with bzip2 compressed files, > then you may be able to cram another 5 to 10% on the CD by turning all the > tar.gz files to tar.bz2. You may also make some savings by re-packing zips > as tar.gz files, and even more as tar.bz2 Another good idea. I looked at Iain's code and his idea seems to do the trick. The only thing I would want to avoid is pulling over something if you have it already & deleting older packages as new ones come along. My rsync mechanism does minimize the bandwidth however I wasn't using the 02packages.details file. The thought crossed my mind some time ago but I haven't touched this stuff for some time. J
