Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > This results in failure to upgrade to a valid snapshot on the mirrors, > > and users having to wait a new snapshot fanout without mixed sets and > > checksum files containing both versions (incompletely the older). > > I do not agree with "be lenient on what you expect thing that > used to be popular belief. So IMHO it is better if sysupgrade fails > when the files in the ftp directory do not match its expectations.
There are a few different back-end failure modes going on here. It is more than a mirroring problem. The hash files contain a mix of files. I think stuart is right -- we are better off just plain failing. One day I will find time to improve the backend, but that's not now.
