Hi Dirk, On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:10:42PM +0200, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
Well, this setup has one problem I experienced.
For new packages the installation may fail, as meta files are up-to-date (from suse server directly), but the download is redirected to ftp5.gwdg.de (for me) and gwdg was not yet up-to-date.
This is a bug which I also observed with ftp5.gwdg.de, recently. We worked on a fix during last week, and it should be 99.9% fixed since Monday morning. A _pulling_ rsync from the site has been stepping on the toes of our rsync _push_, sometimes, and let freshly synced files disappear. The two rsyncs have been synchronized somewhat now, in coordination with the site's admin. It could principally happen with other mirrors which get the repositories pushed, but I don't have evidence that any other of those mirrors pulls via rsync, let alone every four hours. Anyway, I observed the problem only with ftp5.gwdg.de. FYI, except than in this buggy scenario, the redirector does only redirect to a mirror for files which it has successfully probed on that mirror before.
This can happy anytime, for everybody and every repository.
Yes, true. Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development