On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 02:25:32PM -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > > When I first encountered this behavior, I concluded that both runs needed to > happen, as the first run worked out which rules were good enough to include > and the second run used that set to generate the new scores. I'd obviously > like to know if that understanding is incorrect, as I've passed that lore > along to others noting the double-generation.
As noted in Bug 7676, the second run update.tar.gz is always ignored and nothing is done with it. The only thing run_nightly really does is promote_active_rules() and commit new rules/active.list. I'm not sure I understand why this is done separately in run_nightly hours after the main generation.
