[mirror-admin] Fw: F17 directory structure and no hardlinking

[Kevin Stange]

On 02/13/2012 08:08 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> To follow up on this quickly,  the new releng box we brought up for
> building branched on did not have sudo setup to allow the automated
> scripts to push the compose live. so i manually ran the exact rsync
> command the scripts run which  includes a --link-dest into the rawhide
> tree.  we did have a config in the mash package not right. which caused
> the directories to not be hashed. so after fixing that i reran the
> compose scripts. this time it had the hashed tree. and when it was
> rsynced it hardlinked as expected into rawhide. Ive not looked at how
> rsync does its --link-dest  but im guessing it must be based on path,
> so if the paths dont match it doesnt hardlink.

Correct, --link-dest will check only for the exact path and file name in
the destination to see if there is a matching file there.  If there's no
match, it will copy the file into the target path instead.

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Kevin Stange
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Steadfast Networks
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