On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 07:48:32PM +1000, Burn Alting wrote:
Recently, it appears that two directories for 8.4 and 8-stream are being distributed in the Centos mirrors.
You can't see it if you view the mirrors, but if one downloads the filelist.gz file and grep for '^./.' one will see the directories, with content, .8.4.2105 and .8-stream.
Can this be explained? An error or a new distribution concept??
If the latter, then this may have an impact on those who have off-line repos which they manually rebuild.
I assume you're talking about: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/filelist.gz
I looked too, and with this command, I noticed the same:
$ curl -sS http://mirror.centos.org/centos/filelist.gz | gzip -d | cut -d/ -f 1-2 | sort | uniq -c 1 . 1 ./2 3 ./2.1 1 ./3 1 ./3.1 1 ./3.3 1 ./3.4 1 ./3.5 1 ./3.6 1 ./3.7 1 ./3.8 2 ./3.9 1 ./4 2 ./4.0 2 ./4.1 3 ./4.2 3 ./4.3 2 ./4.4 2 ./4.5 2 ./4.6 2 ./4.7 2 ./4.8 2 ./4.9 1 ./5 2 ./5.0 2 ./5.1 1 ./5.10 2 ./5.11 2 ./5.2 2 ./5.3 2 ./5.4 2 ./5.5 2 ./5.6 2 ./5.7 2 ./5.8 2 ./5.9 1 ./6 3 ./6.0 3 ./6.1 2 ./6.10 3 ./6.2 3 ./6.3 2 ./6.4 2 ./6.5 2 ./6.6 2 ./6.7 2 ./6.8 2 ./6.9 1 ./7 2 ./7.0.1406 2 ./7.1.1503 2 ./7.2.1511 2 ./7.3.1611 2 ./7.4.1708 2 ./7.5.1804 2 ./7.6.1810 2 ./7.7.1908 2 ./7.8.2003 194362 ./7.9.2009 1 ./8 2 ./8.0.1905 2 ./8.1.1911 2 ./8.2.2004 90417 ./8.3.2011 27301 ./.8.4.2105 91603 ./8.4.2105 40555 ./.8-stream 60412 ./8-stream 48 ./build 1 ./dir_sizes 3 ./dostools 1 ./filelist.gz 2 ./graphics 1 ./HEADER.html 108 ./HEADER.images 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-beta 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Debug-6 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Debug-7 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Official 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Security-6 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-6 1 ./RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-7 1 ./TIME 1 ./timestamp.txt
Ignore all the small numbers, those are basically empty directories.
So, as best as I can tell, there are two directories for the latest CentOS8 and two directories for 8-stream, and they have different content! What's up with that?