On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:52:12PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:

On 07/22/2010 04:44 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:

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If all mirrors would add /**/.* to their rsync exclude list, we wouldn't see these sorts of things.

please dont do that - there are valid and required dot files inthe mirror. eg: .discinfo .treeinfo

If everyone uses --delay-updates --delete --delete-after, then rsync puts the temporary files in .~tmp~/ directories, and it automatically excludes those temporary files from the rsync transfer.

--delay-updates This option puts the temporary file from each updated file into a holding directory until the end of the transfer, at which time all the files are renamed into place in rapid succession. This attempts to make the updating of the files a little more atomic. By default the files are placed into a directory named “.~tmp~” in each file’s destination directory, but if you’ve specified the --partial-dir option, that directory will be used instead. See the comments in the --partial-dir section for a discussion of how this “.~tmp~” dir will be excluded from the transfer, and what you can do if you want rsync to cleanup old “.~tmp~” dirs that might be lying around. Conflicts with --inplace and --append.

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Jon Lewis wrote:

What are these required for? We've never carried those files. It doesn't seem to have caused any problems. Apache, in its default config as installed by Red Hat / CentOS, won't show such files.

anaconda needs those during wire installs to determine completeness, and consistency of an image to its initrd

by omitting them, you rule out full functionality of your mirror --- they are needed

-- Russ herrold