.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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