Re: pkg_summary out of date due to Unrecognized archive format

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:29:24AM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
> > > I am looking at 
> > > /ftp/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/6.0_2012Q3/All/
> > 
> > I replaced the pkg_summary.bz2 and pkg_summary.gz
> > 
> > I kept the results from the previous file.  It appeared to have 
> > information merged into it and so it had old entries that didn't even 
> > exist for download. (So two different problems.)
> > 
> > The diff for just PKGNAMEs is 7563 lines long for one repo!
> > 
> > How was the previous pkg_summary generated on Nov. 15?
> 
> 
> On IRC, I heard that some packages were missing. I logged in. The file 
> was there, but the pkg_summary was replaced again with list missing many 
> packages.
> 
> There is a cron job that transfers packages.
> 
> What generates the pkg_summary?  Can someone please fix this?
> 
> (I cc'd to developers who may know.)

AFAIK it's generated by pbulk, at the end of the pbulk stage and just
before rsync.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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