Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Removing profiles/use.local.desc file from CVS on 2011-02-11

[Zac Medico]

On 02/05/2011 02:31 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 18:04:03 +0100
> Luca Longinotti <chtekk@×××××××××.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:50:20 -0600
>> Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>>  The CVS->RSYNC service has moved hosts and now we generate the
>>>  use.local.desc file via egencache.
>>
>> Hi, could any of this cause a (kinda) full resync from the mirrors?
>> Because an emerge --sync I'm doing now is syncing up _all_ files in the
>> tree and taking ages on my laptop, on the other hand the emerge --sync
>> I did yesterday at around 1400 CET just synced the changed files, as
>> usual... I also tried multiple mirrors, thinking maybe one of them was
>> the problem, but they all happily continued syncing everything.
>> At the end of the sync, Portage also processed all the update-files,
>> which too is strange. All the modification times of the files seem to
>> have been updated... The date on my system is set correctly, so I can't
>> really explain why this would suddenly happen, as between yesterday and
>> today I didn't update Portage or rsync.
>
> I've had this happen twice in a row, last night and today.

The sizes of the snapshot deltas [1] also seem to show an unusually big
change:

 snapshot-20110201-20110202.patch.bz2        02-Feb-2011 19:57  163K
 snapshot-20110202-20110203.patch.bz2        03-Feb-2011 19:57  113K
 snapshot-20110203-20110204.patch.bz2        04-Feb-2011 19:53  1.3M

I guess that something about the master rsync mirror has changed. It
used to be osprey.gentoo.org, but the size of the
snapshot-20110203-20110204.patch.bz2 file on osprey is only 107213 bytes.

[1] http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/deltas/
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Thanks,
Zac