could you please have a set of symlinks in the snapshots directory that point to the latest files? eg: ln -sf portage-DATE.tar.bz2 latest.tar.bz2 ln -sf portage-DATE.tar.bz2.gpgsig latest.tar.bz2.gpgsig ln -sf portage-DATE.tar.bz2.md5sum latest.tar.bz2.md5sum This makes it much easier to fetch the latest snapshot in places where it's not possible to put the date in the filename.
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Your symlinks are dangling and don't work. You did: portage-latest.tar.bz2 -> /mnt/distfiles/snapshots/portage-DATE.tar.bz2 The lack of path on the symlink source is important. Create your symlinks with: ln -sf portage-DATE.tar.bz2 /mnt/distfiles/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2 ln -sf portage-DATE.tar.bz2.md5sum /mnt/distfiles/snapshots/portage- latest.tar.bz2.md5sum ln -sf portage-DATE.tar.bz2.gpgsig /mnt/distfiles/snapshots/portage- latest.tar.bz2.gpgsig
Not sure I follow....looking at the script, I added: # # create some symlinks # /usr/bin/ln -sf ${UPLOAD}${FILENAME} ${UPLOAD}portage-latest.tar.bz2 /usr/bin/ln -sf ${UPLOAD}${FILENAME}.md5sum ${UPLOAD}portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum /usr/bin/ln -sf ${UPLOAD}${FILENAME}.gpgsig ${UPLOAD}portage-latest.tar.bz2.gpgsig Running a brief test on osprey, it appears to work: osprey tmp # cd /mnt/distfiles/snapshots/ osprey snapshots # ls -lah |grep portage-latest.tar.bz2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 gmirror gmirror 49 Jul 7 15:14 portage-latest.tar.bz2 -> /mnt/distfiles/snapshots/portage-20050706.tar.bz2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 gmirror gmirror 56 Jul 7 15:14 portage-latest.tar.bz2.gpgsig -> /mnt/distfiles/snapshots/portage-20050706.tar.bz2.gpgsig lrwxrwxrwx 1 gmirror gmirror 56 Jul 7 15:14 portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum -> /mnt/distfiles/snapshots/portage-20050706.tar.bz2.md5sum osprey snapshots # cp portage-latest.tar.bz2 /tmp/ osprey snapshots # cd /tmp osprey tmp # ls -alh | grep portage-latest.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Jul 7 16:08 portage-latest.tar.bz2 What am I missing?
The links should look like: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 7 08:00 portage-latest.tar.bz2 -> portage- 20050706.tar.bz2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 7 08:12 portage-latest.tar.bz2.gpgsig -> portage-20050706.tar.bz2.gpgsig lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 7 08:00 portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum -> portage-20050706.tar.bz2.md5sum So change the lines in the script to: /usr/bin/ln -sf ${FILENAME} ${UPLOAD}portage-latest.tar.bz2 /usr/bin/ln -sf ${FILENAME}.md5sum ${UPLOAD}portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum /usr/bin/ln -sf ${FILENAME}.gpgsig ${UPLOAD}portage-latest.tar.bz2.gpgsig To get rid of the path on the source/target for the symlink.
To demonstrate the problem, go to another machine where the snapshots are NOT in /mnt/distfiles/snapshots/, and repeat your "cp portage-latest.tar.bz2 /tmp/" test.
ok -- got it. The script now looks like: cd ${UPLOAD} /usr/bin/ln -sf ${FILENAME} ${UPLOAD}portage-latest.tar.bz2 /usr/bin/ln -sf ${FILENAME}.md5sum ${UPLOAD}portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum /usr/bin/ln -sf ${FILENAME}.gpgsig ${UPLOAD}portage-latest.tar.bz2.gpgsig
