On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Hmm, sounds reasonable. Perhaps you mistakenly ran emerge --sync
> instead of eix-sync that one time? I've done it myself once or thrice
> :-)
>
> I would not have thought so because it's all done in cron jobs thrice
> per week, giving me reports via email.
>
> However, it is true that emerge sync and eix-update were in two
> separate jobs scheduled an hour apart. It is vaguely conceivable
> that they got out of step somehow. I've unified them, and hope
> things go better now.

Yeah, that's probably it then. Doing an emerge at randomly selected
times will cause i in about 60 or so to fall in that hour window :-)

Any particular reason you run two separate jobs and not just eix-sync
(which does both in sequence)?

alan

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Originally, because the output was hard to read I think. And I figured that starting them an hour apart would ensure sequence anyway.