I am seeing this too, on a long-standing mirror using lftp direct from
ftp.scientificlinux.org.  Clobbered some installations I was doing of
our copy on Sunday - we lost some of the SL4.4 i386 base stuff, mostly
files starting 'o'  (openssl, openoffice, openssh, ... list on request).
A re-sync of the mirror brought the files back.

	Martin.
-- 
Martin Bly
RAL Tier1 Fabric Team 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of Kai Leffhalm
> Sent: 06 December 2007 11:38
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Problem with Mirroring
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 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
>