Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> Le 27/10/2010 20:54, Eberhard Moenkeberg a écrit :
>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
>>> Le 27/10/2010 19:16, Eberhard Moenkeberg a écrit :

>>>> Have a look at the top of the mentioned path name: "/3/freebsd-core/".
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> On ftp.nl.freebsd.org (one of the listed rsync server that does fail to 
>>> replicate the CVS repository properly), here is the content of
>>> 
>>> /vol/3/freebsd-core/development/FreeBSD-CVS/ports/www/apache22/Attic:
>>> 
>>> ftp> pwd
>>> Remote directory: 
>>> /vol/3/freebsd-core/development/FreeBSD-CVS/ports/www/apache22
>>> ftp> ls Attic
>>> 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||54078|)
>>> 150 Here comes the directory listing.
>>> drwxrwx--x    2 500      450          4096 Dec 24  2006 Attic
>>> 226 Directory send OK.
>>> 
>>> This directory should contain the following files:
>>> 
>>> pkg-comment,v          pkg-deinstall,v
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is why the rsync replication fails. The problem really resides on the 
>>> mirrors.
>> 
>> You are right. The directory permissions should read drwxr-xr-x.
>> 
>
> How can we fix the permissions on the 'Attic' dirs on the rsync  mirrors so 
> that the feature is back to a working state as far as mirroring the CVS 
> repository goes ?

If the permissions on the servers are OK, most rsync clients will 
automatically fix them locally (due to their rsync options).


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

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