Re: rsync and pbulk

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2015-10-17 at 14:07 BST, Tobias Nygren wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 14:21:41 +0200
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > > I do not like this as it means it is much easier to accidently run the
> > > programs twice. This applies for pbulk-build as well.
> > 
> > Just so that others don't have to google this...
> 
> Then scan and build tools should be changed to retry the bind and sleep
> in a loop until it succeeds. It is not acceptable to have to resort to
> manually installing Joyent's version of pbulk to fix this issue.

I've been testing Joerg's proper fix for this:

  http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/pbulk-shutdown.diff

and have seen no failures so far with limited_list test builds on both
SmartOS and Darwin.  Wider testing would be appreciated.

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com