RUNMIRRORS(1)

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💫 RUNMIRRORS(1) 💫

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're talking about runmirrors — the little glow-up button that pings all your downstream mirrors and tells them "hey girl, new packages just dropped, come get them." 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

runmirrors — Trigger downstream mirrors 🔔

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

runmirrors

that's it. no flags, no args, no drama. she takes zero notes and gives zero options. she just goes. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so runmirrors is part of the ftpsync suite — you know, the whole toolkit for mirroring Debian and Debian-like repositories full of packages. 📦✨

here's the tea: there are way too many mirrors of Debian out there to have the machine that generates the archive (affectionately known as ftp-master, the main character fr) personally feed every single one. that would be giving one server the entire group chat to manage and, like, no. 😭

so instead, the mirrors are organized in a tree-shaped hierarchy. 🌳 which means:

  • every mirror has exactly one upstream — the one specific source it syncs from. no side-eyeing other mirrors, one upstream only, periodt.
  • and each mirror can have any number of downstreams, which in turn sync from it. so your mirror can absolutely be somebody else's upstream, and that's the whole slay. 👑

it's giving family tree, but make it package distribution. 🌈

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Debian mirror team. 💖 legends, honestly.

ngl if you're running a mirror you're lowkey doing the community a huge service and we're obsessed with you. 🌟

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this page comes to you straight from the ftpsync Manual in RUNMIRRORS(1). go trigger those downstreams. 🦋💅✨

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