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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Removing profiles/use.local.desc file from CVS on 2011-02-11
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:53:09
Message-Id: 4D4F8891.2030309@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Removing profiles/use.local.desc file from CVS on 2011-02-11 by Zac Medico
1 On 02/05/2011 08:34 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 02/05/2011 02:31 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
3 >> On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 18:04:03 +0100
4 >> Luca Longinotti<chtekk@×××××××××.com> wrote:
5
6 >>> Hi, could any of this cause a (kinda) full resync from the mirrors?
7 >>> Because an emerge --sync I'm doing now is syncing up _all_ files in the
8 >>> tree and taking ages on my laptop, on the other hand the emerge --sync
9 >>> I did yesterday at around 1400 CET just synced the changed files, as
10 >>> usual... I also tried multiple mirrors, thinking maybe one of them was
11 >>> the problem, but they all happily continued syncing everything.
12 >>> At the end of the sync, Portage also processed all the update-files,
13 >>> which too is strange. All the modification times of the files seem to
14 >>> have been updated... The date on my system is set correctly, so I can't
15 >>> really explain why this would suddenly happen, as between yesterday and
16 >>> today I didn't update Portage or rsync.
17 >>
18 >> I've had this happen twice in a row, last night and today.
19 >
20 > The sizes of the snapshot deltas [1] also seem to show an unusually big
21 > change:
22 >
23 > snapshot-20110201-20110202.patch.bz2 02-Feb-2011 19:57 163K
24 > snapshot-20110202-20110203.patch.bz2 03-Feb-2011 19:57 113K
25 > snapshot-20110203-20110204.patch.bz2 04-Feb-2011 19:53 1.3M
26 >
27 > I guess that something about the master rsync mirror has changed. It
28 > used to be osprey.gentoo.org, but the size of the
29 > snapshot-20110203-20110204.patch.bz2 file on osprey is only 107213 bytes.
30
31 I can imagine that the first delta has a large changeset because of the
32 process involved. However, it looks normal now, again. It is just part
33 of the upgrade path of changing the service to a new host [that does
34 things ever so slightly different].
35
36 120K snapshot-20110202-20110203.patch.bz2
37 1.4M snapshot-20110203-20110204.patch.bz2
38 260K snapshot-20110204-20110205.patch.bz2
39 124K snapshot-20110205-20110206.patch.bz2
40
41 As for the "re-syncing all files thing" - I can't reproduce that, though
42 I've seen multiple reports. Did it settle down now? (I assume so)
43
44 -Jeremy

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