Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:59:31 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: breakage in alpha (and i386?) package trees ? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0201311453430.1961-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
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hi, a couple of queries. the alpha packages-4-stable tree appears to be somewhat broken (or maybe i don't understand how it works) in that it has *real* files in packages-4-stable/Latest. this is not the case on i386/packages-4-stable/Latest, where all the real files live in All, with symlinks from other directories including latest. i remember in the past that at one stage there was a serious breakage where instead of symlinks, the whole packages tree was duplicated between All and the other directories - i wanted to check this hasn't happened again. btw, in case people want to know, there are > 100,000 files (if you include symlinks) in the ports/packages tree. i've just been doing some stats on various trees to work out why rsync chews a lot of memory. rsync on releases/ should be fine with relatively few files. rsync on a complete ports tree is starting to push it. rsync on branches or CVSup trees is not very advisable. with the i386 packages-4-stable/Latest i am seeing a few broken links. can anyone verify if this was some transient operation and fixed now, or whether it's something that needs to be looked at. it tends to take quite a long time to mirror the entire packages-4-stable tree so we update it only periodically here (e.g, monthly) rather than the weekly or more frequent builds that might be happening. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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