Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:39 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updates from ftp-master are failing... Message-ID: <48216FF3.70509@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080506224408.GA9224@soaustin.net> References: <4820D3F1.2090908@isc.org> <20080506224408.GA9224@soaustin.net>
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Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:56:01PM -0700, Peter Losher wrote: >> Connected to ftp-master.freebsd.org >> Updating collection FreeBSD-archive/all >> Rsync FreeBSD/TIMESTAMP >> Symlink FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/packages-7-current -> packages-7-stable >> Updater failed: Cannot install >> "/proj/mirrors/FreeBSD/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/#cvs.cvsup-85240.2" >> to >> "/proj/mirrors/FreeBSD/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/packages-7-current": >> Is a directory >> -=- > > This is probably something to do with the fact that I rearranged > things in those directories (in an attempt to avoid having to reload > the entire contents, which sounds like it has now failed). > > Initially packages-7-current was the directory and packages-7-stable > was a symlink to it. Yesterday I switched them (using a temporary > directory name). > > OTOH from what I'm seeing on ftp4 right now, everything is like I > expect it to be ... This is the situation (directory becomes a symlink) that cvsup cannot handle. There's no way to avoid forcing a cvsup mirror to re-download the entire contents when you rename a directory, except by local intervention by the admin. Kris
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