Bug 199128

Summary:	=app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror has broken syncing since updating the rsync mirror to rsync >= 2.6.7
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alois Schmid <alois.schmid>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	RGK <rgkmg25>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	flophousejoe-gentoo-bugzilla-ehx, gentoo, proxy-maint, tantive
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	New conf file fixing the problem The same as a patch file

Description Alois Schmid 2007-11-14 09:37:34 UTC

As of rsync 2.6.7 the meaning of the option --devices changed in that it doesn't include preserving "special" files any more. As a consequence it get following error messages in my rsync mirror log file:

----------------------------snip-----------------------------
Started update at Wed Jan 17 03:10:01 CET 2007
rsync: on remote machine: --no-specials: unknown option
rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at clientserver.c(520)
rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(604) [receiver=2.6.9]
End: Wed Jan 17 03:10:49 CET 2007
----------------------------snap-----------------------------

Adding the option "--specials" to the OPTS-Variable in "/etc/rsync/gentoo-mirror.conf" fixed the problem. I also attached the changed gentoo-mirror.conf-file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Executing /opt/gentoo-rsync/rsync-gentoo-portage.sh

Actual Results:  
No syncing of the gentoo portage tree any more. Error message see description

Expected Results:  
Syncing of the gentoo portage tree

Comment 1 Alois Schmid 2007-11-14 09:39:22 UTC

Created attachment 135947 [details]
New conf file fixing the problem

Just added --special to the list of options passed to rsync (OPTS-variable)

Comment 2 Alois Schmid 2007-11-14 09:46:39 UTC

Created attachment 135949 [details, diff]
The same as a patch file

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-14 09:49:02 UTC

*** Bug 146274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Dane Smith (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-27 00:05:50 UTC

Assigning to new maintainers.

Comment 5 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-04-26 13:05:15 UTC

Hello RGK.

Do you still proxy maintain this package? Do you think this is fixable or whether it is a candidate for being cleaned from the Portage tree?

Thank you very much in advance.

Comment 6 Yixun Lan archtester

2015-01-05 03:15:21 UTC

ping maintainer..
also got this warning, it would be great if we can fix all bugs and stabilize new version, many thanks

RepoMan scours the neighborhood...
>>> Creating Manifest for /home/gentoo/gentoo-x86/app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror
  repo.eapi.deprecated          1
   app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror/gentoo-rsync-mirror-1.0-r4.ebuild: 0

Comment 7 Amy Liffey gentoo-dev

2017-02-27 15:23:55 UTC

commit d59a2174f4da6b9d900c88cf714b418bb6afff92
Author: Amy Liffey <amynka@gentoo.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 27 15:48:20 2017 +0100

    app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror: fix config bug #199128
    
    Sumbitted-by: Alois Schmid