[mirror-admin] missing file in 12-Alpha

[Carlos Carvalho]

Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) wrote on 21 August 2009 12:22:
 >On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 15:45 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
 >> I don't know. There doesn't seem to exist an easy way to make
 >> jigdo-lite tell the missing name... At least I didn't find it in the
 >> manual.
 >> 
 >> One possibility would be to extract the names from the jigdo file and
 >> compare with what's on disk. I asked because those who create the
 >> jigdo's probably have better ways to do it.
 >> 
 >
 >Sadly I don't, I was the one that created them.  Jigdo was just slapped
 >on at some users' request, but the tooling for it is /terrible/, and I'd
 >rather we just didn't do it anymore.

Jigdo is *very* useful for full mirrors because they already have all
packages and don't need to pull the same thing again in the iso. So
please keep them.

I checked that all files are on disk, for the i386 dvd and the first
cd. Yet jigdo says there's one missing file for the dvd and 2 for the
cd. Jigdo verifies checksums, so if there's an error in our version
it'll refuse it and say it didn't find the file (it won't say the
checksum is wrong...). So I downloaded again all files of the cd in a
different directory (so rsync won't skip matching dates/sizes), and it
still doesn't "find" 2. Therefore it's not a checksum problem.

Jigdo gives a hint:

   However, if all the files downloaded without errors and you
   still get this message, it means that the files changed on the
   server, so the image cannot be generated.

Would it be possible that a few files were changed after you created
the jigdo/templates? Could you try to recreate them?

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