Re: /releases/10/Everything: several packages changed

[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 20:10 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>   a current rsync shows that thousands of files have been changed in
> the
>  last week. This is not expected as /releases/ is considered to only
>  change for the release day and then never again.
>  
>  The files have a date of Jan 23rd. Although I don't have a copy to
>  compare with looking at the internal date it looks like the files have
>  just been `touch'ed (but I only checked a coupl of the 2000+ changed
>  ones). Could someone bring back the old dates to make it consistent
>  again? Thanks! 
Hrm, there was no action on my part to touch everything, so I'll have to
do some investigation into what's going on.

Looking on the server, all the files in
releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/ have varying timestamps, but I
do indeed see some things with a stamp as new as Jan 22.  Its certainly
not every file, but I'm still not quite finding any commonality in my
brief looking.  More investigation to follow.

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Jesse Keating
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/releases/10/Everything: several packages changed

[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 12:14 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>   Hrm, there was no action on my part to touch everything, so I'll
> have to
>  do some investigation into what's going on.
>  
>  Looking on the server, all the files in
>  releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/ have varying timestamps, but I
>  do indeed see some things with a stamp as new as Jan 22.  Its certainly
>  not every file, but I'm still not quite finding any commonality in my
>  brief looking.  More investigation to follow.
>   
I take that back.  This happened when I was trying to pre-stage some
11-Alpha content.  I misread/misunderstood what --size-only option would
do, in relation to --link-dest.  I was trying to link 11-Alpha packages
to the same ones found in /pub/fedora/linux/releases/development/.
However these that were touched were packages that were in development/
that hadn't changed since the F10 release.  --size-only seems to have
updated the timestamps on these files to match something that was going
on with my compose output I was trying to sync in.

This was certainly unexpected, and repairing this is going to be...
interesting.

I need to investigate why my compose hosts are creating a timestamp on
these files when they shouldn't be.

Sorry for the churn!

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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/releases/10/Everything: several packages changed

[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 12:21 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>   I misread/misunderstood what --size-only option would
>  do, in relation to --link-dest 
Actually it may have nothing to do with --size-only, that may have just
been my clue that something was wrong.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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/releases/10/Everything: several packages changed

[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 12:21 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>   This was certainly unexpected, and repairing this is going to be...
>  interesting.
>   
Through some fun work with /sbin/hardlink I got a lot of the packages
fixed up.  There are some more that aren't quite right, due to the
development tree having moved on, so I'll have to fix this individually.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

/releases/10/Everything: several packages changed

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:58:28PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 12:21 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  >  This was certainly unexpected, and repairing this is going to be...
>  > interesting.
>  > 
>  
>  Through some fun work with /sbin/hardlink I got a lot of the packages
>  fixed up.  There are some more that aren't quite right, due to the
>  development tree having moved on, so I'll have to fix this individually. 
Isn't there a backup of /releases/ to pull back the original files?
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

/releases/10/Everything: several packages changed

[Jesse Keating]

On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 10:16 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
>   Isn't there a backup of /releases/ to pull back the original
> files? 
I do believe there is, but it would involve tape and a long wait, for
something as easy to fix as timestamps.  I have most of them fixed,
there are only a tiny few that are not, something that I'm almost
willing to live with.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating