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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: [solved] Re: [gentoo-mirrors] timestamp.chk not present on master server
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:14:06
Message-Id: d60485129eba0e2264be8d2d7286e25a@jolexa.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] timestamp.chk not present on master server by Manuel Tiago Pereira
1 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:01:50 +0000, Manuel Tiago Pereira
2 <tiago.pereira@×××××××××××.pt> wrote:
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4 > Hash: SHA1
5 >
6 > Greetings,
7 >
8 > When syncing from the master portage server
9 > (rsync://rsync1.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage), sometimes the
10 > metadata/timestamp.chk gets deleted. Here's an excerpt from our rsync
11 logs:
12 >
13 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100113.gz:2010/01/12 04:03:10 [23321]
14 >> gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
15 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100114.gz:2010/01/14 01:33:10 [2988]
16 gentoo-portage
17 >> del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
18 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100115.gz:2010/01/14 10:03:09 [23615]
19 >> gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
20 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100118.gz:2010/01/17 14:03:09 [29970]
21 >> gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
22 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100122.gz:2010/01/21 20:03:09 [7617]
23 gentoo-portage
24 >> del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
25 >> gentoo-portage.log-20100122.gz:2010/01/22 02:33:11 [10630]
26 >> gentoo-portage del. metadata/timestamp.chk 0
27 >
28 > Since we're using the rsync flag "--delete" I'm guessing that this
29 > basically means that the file didn't exist on the master server at the
30 > time of syncing.
31 >
32 > Why is that? Should we start testing for the existence of this file
33 > before syncing?
34 >
35 > Thank you.
36
37 FYI: We do believe this issue is solved now. It ended up being a flaw in
38 an internal script, hard to track down as it was intermittent.
39 -Jeremy
40
41 >
42 > Best regards,
43 >
44 > - --
45 > Manuel Tiago Correia Casimiro da Silva Pereira
46 > tiago.pereira@×××××××××××.pt
47 >
48 > Administração de Sistemas da Rede das Novas Licenciaturas
49 > Instituto Superior Técnico
50 >
51 > web: https://www.rnl.ist.utl.pt
52 > email: rnl@×××××××××××.pt
53 > telefone: +351 218 41 77 71
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