[mirror-admin] New rawhide tree not hard-linked?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:44, Carlos Carvalho <carlos at fisica.ufpr.br> wrote:
> Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) wrote on 5 November 2010 12:39:
>  >Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> said:
>  >> Ugh.  We had a config failure that led to the entire rawhide tree being
>  >> wiped out.  An old one was replaced, but apparently not with hardlinks :/
>  >
>  >Eh, it happens; live and learn.
>
> The problem is that these mistakes are recurrent...

When was the last one? I am trying to come up with a lessons learned
here but do not see this happening in the last 3 months.

>  >Can something be done on the mirror
>  >side to prevent more than a certain percentage of the tree from being
>  >removed in a push though?
>
> You can use --max-delete with rsync.
>
>  >I don't know how the push scripts work.
>
> This is done in your script.

Whose script? Too many pronouns without pointers to whose subject.

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Stephen J Smoogen.
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