Thanks for all this. I actually noticed the problem as I simply rsync'd the complete distribution from a local mirror to local storage a'la rsync -aSHP --delete rsync -avSHP rsync://${Host}/centos /var/www/html/centos 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. That said, I just did an rsync and the two directories and their content have gone. Thank you. On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 00:20, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 7/8/21 4:48 AM, 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. > > > > Rgds > > .8.4.2105 is removed. > > .8-stream is not shared with external mirrors, it is a way for us to get > mirror.centos.org and msync.centos.org ready for publishing the 8-stream > tree since: > > 1) it updates much faster than the older Major.Minor scheme > 2) installing/updating while the mirrors are updating can be problematic. > > So for 8-stream .. we get a good copy of everything, hardlink it to > 8-stream and that allows all our mirrors to be updated at one time. > > None of this should be on external mirrors as it is excluded from our > exports. > > It does how up on our list of files. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210709/68ae5150/attachment-0005.html>