On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Paul Stewart pstewart@nexicomgroup.net wrote:
Could someone please explain the "bit flips" ? Sorry, I haven't taken any time to understand this .. is it just a matter of the correct rsync command switches?
Paul, the way that mirror syncing for a release works for CentOS (and many other distributions) is to setup the new directory such that it is *not* world readable (chmod 700 5.6/ for example). This way, the files will populate the mirrors, but people will not be able to access them via ftp/http/rsync until the bit-flip (chmod 755 or so). This is so that all mirrors will have complete content before people start downloading/installing.
If your 5.6 directory is open currently, then you may want to look at other rsync flags to fix it (we use -p).
-Jeff