<div dir="ltr">Thanks for all this.<div><br><div>I actually noticed the problem as I simply rsync'd the complete distribution from a local mirror to local storage a'la</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>rsync -aSHP --delete rsync -avSHP rsync://${Host}/centos /var/www/html/centos</div></blockquote>and the two directories .8-stream and .8.4.2105 appeared in my filesystem. So it appeared these two directories had escaped via the mirror process.<div><br></div><div>That said, I just did an rsync and the two directories and their content have gone. Thank you.<br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 00:20, Johnny Hughes <<a href="mailto:johnny@centos.org">johnny@centos.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 7/8/21 4:48 AM, Burn Alting wrote:<br>
> Recently, it appears that two directories for 8.4 and 8-stream are being<br>
> distributed in the Centos mirrors.<br>
> <br>
> You can't see it if you view the mirrors, but if one downloads the<br>
> filelist.gz file and grep for '^\.\/\.' one will see the directories, with<br>
> content, .8.4.2105 and .8-stream.<br>
> <br>
> Can this be explained? An error or a new distribution concept??<br>
> <br>
> If the latter, then this may have an impact on those who have off-line repos which they manually rebuild.<br>
> <br>
> Rgds<br>
<br>
.8.4.2105 is removed.<br>
<br>
.8-stream is not shared with external mirrors, it is a way for us to get<br>
<a href="http://mirror.centos.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mirror.centos.org</a> and <a href="http://msync.centos.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">msync.centos.org</a> ready for publishing the 8-stream<br>
tree since:<br>
<br>
1) it updates much faster than the older Major.Minor scheme<br>
2) installing/updating while the mirrors are updating can be problematic.<br>
<br>
So for 8-stream .. we get a good copy of everything, hardlink it to<br>
8-stream and that allows all our mirrors to be updated at one time.<br>
<br>
None of this should be on external mirrors as it is excluded from our<br>
exports.<br>
<br>
It does how up on our list of files.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Johnny Hughes<br>
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