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On 4 Oct 2002, Colin Morey wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 12:38, mirror-maintainer@×××××××××××××.net wrote: |
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> > On 2 Oct 2002, Colin Morey wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Background: I touch a file by that name within the destination area when I |
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> > start a mirror run for all sites that I mirror, in order that users have |
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> > some way of telling that the current state of my mirror may not entirely |
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> > be in a consistent and correct state. The file is removed when the |
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> > scheduled mirror job is finished. |
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> *nods* I understand |
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> > As I don't personally use gentoo, I haven't been aware whether adding this |
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> > file would cause problems to gentoo users. Since this file causes |
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> > problems, I'll amend my mirror script so that it doesn't create this file. |
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> Due to the way the the rsync system works, any user that syncs with your |
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> mirror whilst your mirror is syncing with the main server will down load |
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> this file, obviously this is only a very small file, but it could cause |
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> our usership some concern. |
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> If you could do without the file, please do, it will make life a little |
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> easier all round. |
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Sure. I've already amended the script to put the file (it's also used as |
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a lock file to ensure that two mirror jobs don't run simultaneously) in |
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another location, outside my ftp/rsync tree. The file shouldn't appear |
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again. |