[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo mirro rsync policy

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo mirro rsync policy

[Régis Décamps]

On Oct 13, 3:00 am, "Trenton Adams" <trenton.d.ad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Is there a policy for thesyncingof the mirrors, that would prevent
> inconsistencies?  I'm not talking about inconsistencies with the
> masterserver(s), as that would be kind of difficult to have atomicsyncingbetween all servers involved.  What I'm referring to is
> inconsistencies in terms of mesyncingwith a mirror.
>
[...]
>
> If each mirror'srsyncis not shutdown duringsyncing, wouldn't it be
> better if it actually was?  I think we'd rather get a connection
> refused message, and have *emerge* try another mirror, than to have an
> inconsistent portage state, don't we think?
>
> Any thoughts?

Yes, it sounds like a good practice to me. I just notice it is the
"update portage tree" does in this gentoo wiki tip.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Providing_binary_packages#Updating_your_portage_tree_once_a_day

 # sync gentoo-portage
 2 8 * * * root   /etc/init.d/rsyncd stop;emerge
--sync;/etc/init.d/rsyncd start
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Régis

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