due, probably, to the (deserverd) increase in popularity of gentoo, the rsync mirrors are suffering to answer to alll the load. One side effect of this is slower updates of the rsyncm mirrors from thr main tree. Since recently portage by default does an emerge --clean at startup if i first went to a *more* upddated rsync mirror and latter to a slower one (in terms of syncing to the main cvs tree) the changes that were gotten from the first emerge will be erased in the second one (regetting an older tree) . I think that an usefull feature could be (like the md5 sigs) have a *timestamp* signature per file and independent of rsync; this way portage could know if it is walking *back* in time or not ... keep the good work thanxs in advance, just my .2 euros ...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4874 ***
if you read bellow the third paragraph you'll see that i 'm going far away than the bug you say i 'm duplicating (i 'm not talking alone about rsync congestion - i 'm talking about rsync *time-warps* )... Yep i even *sugest* a feature improvement ... TIA
so than this bug report turns into a request for enhancement ;)
This isn't really possible with rsync. There are too many factors to deal with. And you shouldn't run into this issue if you only rsync once every hour max. Otherwise you tax the servers.
