Bug 96648

Summary:	RSYNC_TIMEOUT inaccuracies in handbook
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Peter Humphrey <peter>
Component:	Portage Manual	Assignee:	Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) <smithj>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	docs-team
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Peter Humphrey 2005-06-20 16:06:38 UTC

With reference to
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=2, it seems
to me that rsync timeouts occur because of too long being taken in processing
results locally between transfers, not because of a slow link. For instance, on
my dual-Opteron box I have 40s set, but on an ancient P5/60 I need to set it to
at least 600. Both these boxes use the same Internet connection.

Secondly, "amount" is for uncountable quantities such as water, not for
countable quantities such as seconds. "Number" is right for those.


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-22 12:41:35 UTC

i'm going to commit the changes in two different commits so translators can
ignore the english semantics

Comment 2 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-22 12:47:20 UTC

fixed; thanks for reporting

Comment 3 Peter Humphrey 2005-06-23 03:44:26 UTC

Sorry if I sound a bit pernickety - I used to do this sort of thing for a
living, since when I can't help noticing things that I'd say differently   :-(