On Wed, 25 May 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

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> If you're setting up an internal mirror for whatever reason (which I
> do for running "mock"), be sure to use rsync or ftp in order to
> replicate the symlinks and save a *lot* of download and disk resource.

And if you use rsync be sure to use the -H option and then it will also 
replicate the hard-links and save even more download/disk... :-)

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