On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:51:43AM +0100, Frederic Soulier wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been experiencing pbms with keeping a good local mirror of cooker
> for HD installations. I'm using sunsite.uio.no and one of the last sync
> triggered a massive number of deletions!
> 
> For example (and this is only a tiny listing of what was deleted...):
> 
> ...
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-xfs-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-server-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-glide-module-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-doc-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-Xvfb-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-Xnest-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/X11R6-contrib-4.3-19mdk.i586.rpm
> 
> 
> In my local tree I have:
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-xfs-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-server-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-glide-module-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-doc-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-Xvfb-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-Xnest-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> /mnt/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/X11R6-contrib-4.3-18mdk.i586.rpm
> 
> 
> So the -18mdk was kept and -19mdk was deleted... Why?
> Note: This is only for XFree* packages... There was at least 200
> deletions in /RPMS and /mdkinst had quite a lot deleted as well.
> 
> Can someone shed some light on the mirror situation?
> 
> Thanks.

Checking the mirror you can see somehow all the packages from 13th Aug
onwards are missing from the tree and that explains massive del of files
you noticed. I personaly feel some glitch or error while makeing beta3
snapshot as i also see all the kernels missing as well :(( 

regards,

parag 


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