[Gllug] Repository expansion approach

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 16 Jul, DL Neil wrote:
> 
> Can I 'seed' my 5.5 repo with the previous version's files and perhaps 
> save some rsync time/traffic; or is this is bad idea?
> 
   Rsync should delete and replace files to ensure that the result is a
complete match.

   Debian uses a combined /pool/ and my partial mirror of Debian pulls in
the total /debian/ including a selection from /debian/pool/ by required
architectures using the facilities in /debian/project/tools/ and it may be
possible to amend them to do what you want.

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