Kai Leffhalm wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new here and have one problem when mirroring the repositories:
>   sometimes the packages disappear and reappear after some time. I was told that this is a problem
> with the fileserver. Now there are some old packages, which seems to be deleted on purpose and some
> seems to be reorganized.
> 
> Is there any possibility to see, which files would be deleted on purpose and which are just
> temporarily deleted?
> 
> Cheers
> Kai Leffhalm
> 
> Examples:
> SL5.1: (Files are moved to different directory)
> x86_64/SL/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
> x86_64/SL/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
> x86_64/SL/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
> x86_64/SL/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
> deleting x86_64/updates/security/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
> deleting x86_64/updates/security/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
> deleting x86_64/updates/security/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
> deleting x86_64/updates/security/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
> 

There is *not* a SL51 directory.  There is a sl5rolling directory, and I sent 
out an announcement about the Beta 2 being released.  The rolling area is not 
meant to be stable ... it is designed to change.

> 
> SL4.4: (Old and current packages are deleted)
> deleting i386/errata/SL/RPMS/postgresql-libs-7.4.17-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
> deleting i386/errata/SL/RPMS/postgresql-jdbc-7.4.17-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
> deleting i386/errata/SL/RPMS/openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20.i386.rpm
> deleting i386/errata/SL/RPMS/openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20.i386.rpm

Could you give me the time that it happened and I'll look at it.

This is not the first time that a rsync from DESY has failed.    Last time I 
couldn't see any problem on our end, but maybe something will show up.

Troy
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