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From: Shawn Haggett <podge@podgeweb.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  what is "a normal rsync"?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:04:36 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D7251C.8060803@podgeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fr70ba$425$1@ger.gmane.org>

Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm behind a firewall that doesn't allow rsync connections, so
> I did a emege-webrsync.  It appears to have downloaded and
> installed a current snapshot and updated the portage cache:
> 
>   sent 9492088 bytes  received 762706 bytes  585988.23 bytes/sec
>   total size is 152597091  speedup is 14.88
>   cleaning up
>   transferring metadata/cache
>   
>   >>> Updating Portage cache:  100%
>   
>    *** Completed websync, please now perform a normal rsync if possible.
>        Update is current as of the of YYYYMMDD: 20080310
>        
> I can't find any documentation that explains what "a normal
> rsync" is or how somebody like me can perform one.
> 
> What is meant by "perform a normal rsync"?
>        

I assume it would mean the normal "emerge --sync" if you can, which you 
can't. I would assume it would say this since the rsync would be more up 
to date then the webrsync snapshot....

Shawn
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-12  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-11 22:16 [gentoo-user] what is "a normal rsync"? Grant Edwards
2008-03-12  0:34 ` Shawn Haggett [this message]
2008-03-12  3:33   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2008-03-12  7:57     ` tecnic5

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