Hi Guys, Is there a policy for the syncing of the mirrors, that would prevent inconsistencies? I'm not talking about inconsistencies with the master server(s), as that would be kind of difficult to have atomic syncing between all servers involved. What I'm referring to is inconsistencies in terms of me syncing with a mirror.
I can't count how many times I've had a problem, gone on a wild goose hunt, and then ended up syncing again and it works. Could this be due to one of the mirrors doing a sync, while it's own rsync is still accepting connections? If so, then I may get a portage tree that is not properly synced. If each mirror's rsync is not shutdown during syncing, wouldn't it be better if it actually was? I think we'd rather get a connection refused message, and have *emerge* try another mirror, than to have an inconsistent portage state, don't we think? Any thoughts? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
