On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:12:59PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:Yes. There are logs. They are, however, empty for some of the requested updates. When the current update finishes (currently at "q"), I will check how a "no update" transaction looks like. I'm not sure I'll be able to find the problem, however.
I didn't understand the problem. Are you saying that the index on Hamakor was MORE up to date than the upstream mirror?There was still a lag of 2 or 3 days between the time that the local mirror had the up to date console-data pointed to in its Packages.gz and the time that the upstream mirror had it.
What I was trying to say is that I believe that a reference to an up
to date console data package appeared in the upstream Packages.gz about
2 days ago. You did say that investigations are being carried out.
That's how rsync works. There are places where those cannot be trusted. In particular, we merge identical files using hard links. This means that the date on only one of the files will be present.Probably time zone differences. ftp.us.debian.org has a timestamp of 04-Sep-2003 14:19.So the time stamp of the Packages.gz file reflects the time when the
upstream file was last written, and not when the local machine opened it for writing?
Suprisingly, most of the merges are not between gentoo and debian, but between gentoo and itself, and debian and itself. This despite the fact that both distros hold unmodified upstream sources (which do get merged occasionally, don't get me wrong).
As I said in the past, this merge seems to save us 5-10% of the disk space, which accounts for ALL of our current free disk space.
-- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
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