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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Testing p2.mirrorsURL

.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 <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:        cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,
Date:        06/20/2012 09:08 AM
Subject:        Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Testing p2.mirrorsURL
Sent by:        cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx




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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