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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] timestamp.chk not present on master server
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:05:52
Message-Id: 4B5D1A81.6000607@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] timestamp.chk not present on master server by Manuel Tiago Pereira
1 Manuel Tiago Pereira wrote:
2 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
3 > Hash: SHA1
4 >
5 > Greetings,
6 >
7 > When syncing from the master portage server
8 > (rsync://rsync1.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage), sometimes the
9 > metadata/timestamp.chk gets deleted. Here's an excerpt from our rsync logs:
10 >
11 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100113.gz:2010/01/12 04:03:10 [23321] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
12 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100114.gz:2010/01/14 01:33:10 [2988] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
13 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100115.gz:2010/01/14 10:03:09 [23615] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
14 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100118.gz:2010/01/17 14:03:09 [29970] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
15 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100122.gz:2010/01/21 20:03:09 [7617] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
16 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100122.gz:2010/01/22 02:33:11 [10630] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
17 >
18 > Since we're using the rsync flag "--delete" I'm guessing that this
19 > basically means that the file didn't exist on the master server at the
20 > time of syncing.
21 >
22 > Why is that? Should we start testing for the existence of this file
23 > before syncing?
24
25 I've been seeing this too on my personal server that syncs from
26 rsync1.us. Yes, we need to fix it. But we don't know what it is yet. =/
27
28 -Jeremy