On 2019-02-08, Mihai Popescu <[email protected]> wrote: > A few days ago I intalled a snaphot not in sync base/ports. > Yesterday I was very happy to see ftp.openbsd.org has a new set of > packages compiled, but since that server is far away I waited for EU > servers to mirror the sets. > The very first one to start the mirroring was ftp2.eu.openbsd.org, but > for some reason, he was stuck in the middle - exactly at package > logstash-x.x.x. After some time, other EU mirrors started to update, > but to my surprise, they remained stuck at the same package. No matter > what, none was able to do some progress. I canceled my waiting and > went to bed, just to install today when all were updated.
When this happens usually the fanout server manages to get half a directory of packages from one build, half from another build. So all the public mirrors end up with the same split of files. (Users of the CDNs have an extra challenge here because different files, even including the directory index, can be cached from different builds - so it's hard to even check that they're in a sane state to update from - this is why I recommend people use a decent localish mirror rather than CDN for snapshot packages.) > I am not sure how this is working, but I think one is pulling files > from Canada for Europe, then all other are using this one to update > themselves. build -> signing -> master --> fanout -> second-level-mirrors -> others | | | | | | | | `------fast net------' `-medium-' `----slow------' `---medium-----' > Anyway, there is no hurry, so many thanks to people providing us with > the files and mirrors. > > Since we are at this subject, is there a way to check that base and > ports are in sync? Not exactly. You could pick a few packages that depend on an assortment of libraries in base, fetch the packing-list - PKG_DBDIR=/var/empty pkg_info -f chromium curl | grep @wantlib | sort -u and check by hand or script something to check that they're in sync, but it's not really user friendly .. You could do pkg_add -u -n and watch for breakages, but it won't be especially quick.
