Due to an administrative error (hint: I'm the administrator :-/ ),
openbsd.cs.toronto.edu dumped its copy of most of the OpenBSD
distribution files that it serves.

It is currently refilling, but this will take a few days before it is
where I want it to be.  To minimize further downstream damage, rsync is
disabled for now

My apologies for the inconvenience this causes.

THIS DOES NOT impact the replication of the CVS served by this mirror.



For the curious, and perhaps as an educational lesson, what happened:

Late last night (error one: scripting when tired) I was editing the
scripts that download from the upstream mirror to include updates to the
new release.  Totally routine.

While there, thought, "would be nice if the logging included some more
information about something".  Added a couple lines to include that
(error 2: adding unneeded features just before things get critical).
That required moving one line that determined the log file name from
down where it was to higher up in the script.  Moved the two lines
(error number 3 and the doozie: that second line was NOT about the log
file name!!!).  This moved the calculation of the exclude rules (the
second line) to the wrong place, so it excluded nothing...including
things it should have excluded.  The new, intended changes were tested,
they worked great, but the exclusion rule kicked in a couple hours later
and started purging data.

Nick.

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