[indiana-discuss] how to create a fully functional mirror of pkg.opensolaris.org

[Stephen Hahn]

* James Cornell <sparcdr at gmail.com> [2009-02-23 22:38]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
> > * SHOUJIN WANG <autumn.wang at webex.com> [2009-02-23 07:52]:
> >   
> >> The rsync method introduced in the formal method "/usr/bin/rsync -a
> >> pkg.opensolaris.org::osol_dev_files /export/pkg/file " does not work.
> >> In my side, there is no respond from the pkg.opensolaris.org server.
> >>     
> >
> >   Use "rsync pkg.opensolaris.org::" to test basic responsiveness.  A
> >   listing of the available "modules" should be displayed, like the
> >   following:
> >
> >   $ rsync pkg.opensolaris.org::
> >   osol_dev_files 	"OpenSolaris Development Release Package Contents"
> >   osol_release_isos	"OpenSolaris Release ISO Images"
> >
> >   It's possible that there was an outage, or that too many rsync
> >   sessions were open simultaneously.  Without an explicit error message,
> >   I can't diagnose further.
>
> I got some kind of python traceback when trying to update to b107... I
> think the servers overloaded or something.

  I suspect you hit a separate issue but, if this failure is
  reproducible, please feel free to send me the output of the traceback.

  (I don't have monitoring data that corroborates any outage/overload,
  but I suppose it depends on when Shoujin and encountered your
  respective problems.)

  Cheers
  Stephen

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