hmm, on Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:00:26PM +0200, Landry Breuil said that > > the mirror is not finished yet probably. > > hey, what about a nice feature in pkg_add, > > that while the mirror is doing the bulk build, > > the build script would create a text file in > > the ftp directory, ".building" and remove it > > afterwards? :] > > Do you seriously think every mirror does its own bulk build ? > > Think a bit more about the whole problem of snapshots distribution of > several gigabytes all over the world on mirrors operated by various > people, some of them not even using OpenBSD, and please realize what > you propose is stupid.
i dont see how this is "stupid"... ok, some of them just get the packages, so what? the script that does that could touch a .lock file when it starts and remove it when it is finished... this could be handy even without pkg_add implementing it.. i can look for the file and if it's there, i'll retry later. even this can be automatized if needed. i mean, this is a legit "error" situation for pkg_add. i dont see why it cannot be informed about the state of mirror's state of synchronisation... the infrastructure is there to do something similar than this. -f -- i thank my lucky stars i'm not superstitious.
