On Apr 12, 3:13 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/12/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> \> On Apr 12, 5:28 am, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > The scipy.org mirror seems to be okay, but I too noticed the
> > > permission problems (which I think mess up the -d option to rsync).
>
> > Ok, that only becomes a problem once the binaries are updated because
> > then you end up with lots of files that should be deleted. SAGEbin is
> > about 1.9GB at the moment, so it is definitely worth getting rid of
> > the old builds once a new release has happened.
>
Hello,
> I no longer leave old binaries laying around. SAGEbin should never be
> much more than 2GB. I've decided to stop archiving old binaries.
> I decided to include SAGEbin, since during the recent dark days of
> server downtime, not having the binaries on mirrors was a major problem.
>
I agree. The problem I was trying to point out was that as long as
there are problems with permissions rsync will not delete files no
longer present, but that can obviously be fixed easily.
> Thanks for all your info about permissions issues. I haven't been able
> to fix them yet, since I've been so busy teaching.
No problem, now that semester has started for me again I am spending
less time on the fun things, too. How about a daily cron job that
chown's /home/was/htdocs to the proper permissions each night?
> William
Cheers,
Michael
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