[Mageia-dev] bs down

Fri Jan 14 17:57:20 CET 2011

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.
+> 
+
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+