Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:55:43 -0500 From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick.bihan-faou@teambox.fr> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication Message-ID: <C5F38A05-A154-4FCB-825D-F3D25868AB7B@dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <4CC81EE7.4020607@teambox.fr> References: <4CC81EE7.4020607@teambox.fr>
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On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > Hi, > > We use FreeBSD extensively and keep a local mirror of the CVS repository. Up until recently things where working properly with the various servers listed in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors-rsync.html, but sometime during the summer ftp13.freebsd.org did not respond anymore and since then rsync replication is broken. > > The main issue (besides the removal of ftp13.freebsd.org) is that most rsync sources refuse to replicate the content of the .Attic directories in the CVS tree. This means that performing a check-out on ports using a tag usually won't work as some files will not be there anymore. > > Here are the typical logs I get using most rsync servers: > > rsync: opendir "/3/freebsd-core/development/FreeBSD-CVS/ports/chinese/pcmanx/files/Attic" (in vol) failed: Permission denied (13) > > At this moment the only rsync server that provides an adequate replication of the CVS repository is ftp2.tw.FreeBSD.org. > > We are moving to svn and svnsync for the freebsd source tree (and I am happy with this), but the ports do not seem to be available using SVN (or not in a documented way). > > Can something be done to restore RSYNC mirroring of the CVS tree to a working state ? > > > Best regards, > > Patrick Bihan-Faou I run ftp3.us.freebsd.org / ftpmirror.your.org that has full rsync support of everything we have on our FTP mirror as well: # rsync -rav ftp3.us.freebsd.org::FreeBSD-CVS/ncvs/ports/chinese/pcmanx/files/Attic . receiving incremental file list Attic/ Attic/patch-po-zh_TW.po,v Attic/patch-src-core-Makefile.in,v Attic/patch-src-generalprefpage.cpp,v Attic/patch-src-mainframe.cpp,v Attic/patch-src-notifier-notifier-impl.c,v Attic/patch-src-stringutil.cpp,v Attic/patch-src-telnetcon.h,v Attic/patch-src-telnetview.cpp,v Attic/patch-src-termview.cpp,v Attic/patch-src-view-telnetview.cpp,v If this doesn't work for you for some reason, drop me a note privately and I'll look into it. -- Kevinhelp
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