Re: nyftp.netbsd.org and ftp.netbsd.org

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

On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 02:47:20PM +0100, rudolf wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:31:14AM +0200, Ilmari Vacklin wrote:
> >>nyftp.netbsd.org has tmux-1.7 in 
> >>http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0/misc/
> >>ftp.netbsd.org has tmux-1.6 in 
> >>http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0/misc/
> >>
> >>What causes this difference?
> 
> The "6.0" symlink under ftp.netbsd.org points to the packages from
> pkgsrc 2012Q3 branch and the symlink under nyftp.netbsd.org points
> to the packages from 2012Q4 branch.
> 
> >the x86 pkgsrc builders have direct connection to nyftp.netbsd.org, so
> >when a pbulk run is complete the resulting packages are uploaded to
> >nyftp.netbsd.org. Then ftp.netbsd.org periodically rsyncs from
> >nyftp.netbsd.org (I don't know how often though). So ftp.netbsd.org may
> >be behind nyftp.netbsd.org by a few hours (maybe up to a day).
> 
> The symlink under nyftp.netbsd.org has the date "Jan 25", so it is
> now more than a week old.

It's possible that the symlink is not updated as part of the rsync
(I don't have access to the rsync setup so I can't check).

I fixed the symlink on ftp.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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