.blobstore directories are being mirrored:

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/egf/updates/helios/0.6.0_old/.blobstore/
http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/eclipse/egf/updates/indigo/1.0.0RC2/.blobstore/

Denis


On 06/20/2012 11:36 AM, David M Williams wrote:
> I find this "interesting" for a couple of reasons.
>
> It sounds like we do not mirror .blobstore directories? Denis, can you
> confirm rsync rules? It would kind of make sense not to by default,
> since "dot directory" ... but, seems ".blobstore" should be an exception.
>
> I'm not sure of all the ins and outs (a p2 expert could speak to this)
> but sometimes "publishing a repo" puts all the jar.pack.gz files in
> .blobstore directory instead of as peers to their corresponding jars.
>
> Second, if we "must not" use .blobstore for eclipse foundation
> mirrored repos, I am not sure we have ever documented that or provided
> any "how to". And, if I recall, the "how to" isn't obvious ... not too
> hard once you know the trick ... but, I do not recall the trick right
> off (I believe it has to do with "copying properties from existing
> repo" that does not use .blobstore, but I don't recall how to "get"
> that original repo?).
>
> Sounds like you solved this recently, Alexander, ... perhaps you could
> add a note to
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/p2.mirrorsURL
> if/when Denis confirms "can not" (or, "should not", or "must not")
> mirror .blobstore directories?
>
> [And, I should apologize in advance if this is actually
> documented/discussed somewhere already ... sometimes I forget what I
> don't know :) ]
>
> Thank you both!
>
>
>
>
>
> From:        Denis Roy <[email protected]>
> To:        [email protected],
> Date:        06/20/2012 09:08 AM
> Subject:        Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Testing p2.mirrorsURL
> Sent by:        [email protected]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> Alexander,
>
> Thanks for testing that.
>
> I hope other projects are also testing their repos for mirror
> functionality...  I will accept criticism that download.eclipse.org is
> slow due to our bandwidth limitations, but if mirrors are not being
> used, that makes matters much worse.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Denis
>
>
> On 06/20/2012 12:45 AM, Alexander Nyßen wrote:
> > Just in case somebody might be interested: it seems that the mirror
> problem was caused by having the update-site in a format that included
> a .blobstore for the pack.gz files. Having converted the update-site
> to a form, where pack.gz files are located next to the related
> bundles, I could observe a different output this morning (after there
> are now a couple of mirrors that have updated themselves to the changes).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alexander

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