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Manuel Tiago Pereira wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> When syncing from the master portage server
> (rsync://rsync1.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage), sometimes the
> metadata/timestamp.chk gets deleted. Here's an excerpt from our rsync logs:
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>> gentoo-portage.log-20100113.gz:2010/01/12 04:03:10 [23321] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
>> gentoo-portage.log-20100114.gz:2010/01/14 01:33:10 [2988] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
>> gentoo-portage.log-20100115.gz:2010/01/14 10:03:09 [23615] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
>> gentoo-portage.log-20100118.gz:2010/01/17 14:03:09 [29970] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
>> gentoo-portage.log-20100122.gz:2010/01/21 20:03:09 [7617] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
>> gentoo-portage.log-20100122.gz:2010/01/22 02:33:11 [10630] gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
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> Since we're using the rsync flag "--delete" I'm guessing that this
> basically means that the file didn't exist on the master server at the
> time of syncing.
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> Why is that? Should we start testing for the existence of this file
> before syncing?
I've been seeing this too on my personal server that syncs from
rsync1.us. Yes, we need to fix it. But we don't know what it is yet. =/
-Jeremy
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