Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Kevin Day wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:

>> We use FreeBSD extensively and keep a local mirror of the CVS 
>> repository. Up until recently things where working properly with the 
>> various servers listed in 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors-rsync.html, but sometime 
>> during the summer ftp13.freebsd.org did not respond anymore and since 
>> then rsync replication is broken.
>>
>> The main issue (besides the removal of ftp13.freebsd.org) is that most 
>> rsync sources refuse to replicate the content of the .Attic directories 
>> in the CVS tree. This means that performing a check-out on ports using 
>> a tag usually won't work as some files will not be there anymore.
>>
>> Here are the typical logs I get using most rsync servers:
>>
>> rsync: opendir 
>> "/3/freebsd-core/development/FreeBSD-CVS/ports/chinese/pcmanx/files/Attic" 
>> (in vol) failed: Permission denied (13)
>>
>> At this moment the only rsync server that provides an adequate 
>> replication of the CVS repository is ftp2.tw.FreeBSD.org.
>>
>> We are moving to svn and svnsync for the freebsd source tree (and I am 
>> happy with this), but the ports do not seem to be available using SVN 
>> (or not in a documented way).
>>
>> Can something be done to restore RSYNC mirroring of the CVS tree to a 
>> working state ?

> I run ftp3.us.freebsd.org / ftpmirror.your.org that has full rsync 
> support of everything we have on our FTP mirror as well:
>
> # rsync -rav  ftp3.us.freebsd.org::FreeBSD-CVS/ncvs/ports/chinese/pcmanx/files/Attic .
> receiving incremental file list
> Attic/
> Attic/patch-po-zh_TW.po,v
> Attic/patch-src-core-Makefile.in,v
> Attic/patch-src-generalprefpage.cpp,v
> Attic/patch-src-mainframe.cpp,v
> Attic/patch-src-notifier-notifier-impl.c,v
> Attic/patch-src-stringutil.cpp,v
> Attic/patch-src-telnetcon.h,v
> Attic/patch-src-telnetview.cpp,v
> Attic/patch-src-termview.cpp,v
> Attic/patch-src-view-telnetview.cpp,v
>
> If this doesn't work for you for some reason, drop me a note privately and I'll look into it.

I guess the "permission denied" happens at the receiver's local directory.


Viele Gruesse
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)

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