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Re: pkg_summary out of date due to Unrecognized archive format



On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 07:58:14AM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > Can that be disabled?  Or does it transfer missing files from the FTP 
> > > server if they are available first?  My concern is the packages appear 
> > > to be from multiple developers, so the pkg_summary keeps getting 
> > > overwritten with wrong and incomplete information.
> > 
> > Maybe that's the problem. The only updates for this directory
> > should come from nyftp.netbsd.org. Is the pkg_summary on nyftp correct ?
> 
> I don't have a login there, but from doing a quick check for firefox and 
> midori it looks correct. That is those packages are missing (and those 
> are the packages I heard discussion about).
> 
> But on the official ftp server, midori and firefox, firefox10, and 
> firefox36 do exist. But the pkg_summary doesn't list.
> 
> There is a mix of packages.

So it's a problem on the ftp server, it's out of sync with the official
source. I guess there's a missing --delete in a rsync comamnd line.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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