[mirror-admin] missing file in 12-Alpha

[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 13:13 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> 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.

How many mirrors are actually using them?  So far, I've only head of
you.  Most mirrors I hear from don't want to take the time to do
something manual, they just want rsync to take care of everything, even
if it means some "wasted" bandwidth.  It means they can setup a cron job
and walk away, never having to look back and touch anything.

> 
> 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?

I really can't think of any files that would have changed.
Unfortunately it's not easily possible for me to re-create the jigdo
files and re-upload them, in time for the release.  The working copy on
the compose system had to be scrubbed to make room to compose the live
images.  It seems really really stupid that Jigdo will know that it's
missing files, but won't tell you /which/ files its missing.  If I knew
which files, I might be able to "rescue" the files or something.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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