[arch-mirrors] infinite symlink recursion in repository

[Carlos Carvalho]

Pierre Schmitz (pierre at archlinux.de) wrote on 18 November 2010 12:08:
 >On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:04:29 -0500, Xavier Corredor Llano
 ><xavier.corredor.llano at gmail.com> wrote:
 >> El Monday 15 November 2010 10:12:51 AM Pierre Schmitz escribió:
 >>> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:07:31 -0200, Carlos Carvalho
 >>>
 >>> <carlos at fisica.ufpr.br> wrote:
 >>> > In /iso/2009.02 the symlink 2009.08 points to itself, leading to
 >>> > infinite recursion.
 >>>
 >>> Thanks for the hint. I just fixed it.
 >> 
 >> I have similar problem syncronize from: 
 >> rsync://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/
 >> 
 >> receiving file list ... symlink has no referent: 
 >> "/iso/archboot/history/Changelog-2008.03-1.txt" (in archlinux)
 >> symlink has no referent: "/iso/archboot/history/Changelog-2007.08-2.txt" (in 
 >> archlinux)
 >
 >Interesting. At least on the master server this seems to be correct:
 >
 >Changelog-2007.08-2.txt -> ../../2007.08/2007.08-2-Changelog.txt
 >Changelog-2008.03-1.txt ->
 >../../2008.03/2008.03-1-archboot-Changelog.txt
 >
 >So, my guess is that there is a problem with archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br

It's not a problem, it's because we exclude the very old releases. I
know about these messages but since the repository is correct I hadn't
bothered about them. To avoid confusion with other mirrors I've just
excluded the symlinks as well.