[Mageia-dev] bs down

[Anssi Hannula]

On 14.01.2011 18:44, Olivier Blin wrote:
> Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:
> 
>> Le vendredi 14 janvier 2011 à 11:39 +0100, Olivier Blin a écrit :
>>> Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Is the bs down. Looks like rpmbuild is missing?
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> Actually, I already fixed this error in iurt SVN yesterday, but I've now
>>> uploaded a package with the fix on the BS nodes.
>>
>> But aren't the chroot tarball recreated at regular interval anymore ?
> 
> No, we would have to put some cron if we want this.
> But is it really useful?
> If a basesystem change, the chroot gets rebuilt automatically already.
> If no basesystem change, the rebuilt chroot will be the same, and does
> not have to be rebuilt ("just in case" is usually the wrong way to do
> things).

AFAIK it was only useful because on Mandriva BS iurt never regenerated
the chroot if it was already there, even if it was not up-to-date.

>> Would it have helped to remove it ? 
> 
> It would have helped if triggered every hour, which does not seem
> reasonable (I guess it was every 7 days at Mandriva).

AFAIK daily.

> Anyway, my iurt fix helps not to encounter this issue anymore, with no
> other trick.
> 


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Anssi Hannula