[arch-general] any packages on the repo are duplicated

[Angel Velásquez]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Roman Kyrylych<roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/4 Angel Velásquez <angvp at archlinux.com.ve>:
>> Ok I found a solution! (I swear this is my last quiote of myself in
>> this thread hehe).
>>
>> I did these steps:
>>
>> 1) entered on i686,x86_64 dirs under extra and and delete *-any.pkg.tar.gz
>> 2) edited the mirrorsync script and deleted safe-links option
>> 3) run the script again
>>
>> And everything worked again.
>>
>> In my local mirror I wasn't syncing testing, iso and other dirs, so I
>> went to the second case of the script, .. the first case (which syncs
>> everything) works fine, is respecting the symlinks, the second case
>> should now be update on wiki page, can I do this? or I have to fill a
>> bug report, can somebody confirm this?.
>>
>> Thanks anyway and sorry for this issue
>
> Full mirror sync in that script uses these rsync options:
> -rptLv --delete-after --delay-updates
>
> Per-repository sync uses these rsync options:
> -rptlv --safe-links --delete-after --delay-updates
>
> >From rsync --help:
>  -l, --links                 copy symlinks as symlinks
>  -L, --copy-links            transform symlink into referent file/dir
>     --safe-links            ignore symlinks that point outside the source tree
>
> So if I understood correctly we should change -L to -l
> and remove --safe-links which is what I'll do now on the wiki.

Exactly I miss to mention about the -L <-> -l option, now I am testing
if it works correctly, seems to be for now ...


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