On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:40:34 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 8 Mar 2016, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > As discussed a few years ago. We agreed to trim the package moves > > updates to maintain 4 years history active in the tree. It currently > > still goes back to include 2010. There was a recent edit to a 2010 > > file that triggered a full re-processing of those files. > > That's not correct. I had noticed reprocessing of all files already > around March 1st, definitely before the edit of the 1Q-2010 file. There has been at least one time recently that a change in the rsync tree generation scripts caused an massive download of files and re-processing of the updates. I believe that was the incident you were referring to. I saw chat (#gentoo-dev) a few days ago from dwfreed. He was testing out more changes to those scripts. So, it is possible that a script update once again caused the re-processing. I'm inquiring if that was indeed the reason. > > > Last night for me it was triggered again. I don't know the cause, > > but I really don't care enough to investigate. But it prompted bug > > 576752. > > > That said, being 2016, I am going to trim 2010 and 2011 files from > > the active tree in 48 hours unless anyone shows a valid and > > justifiable reason to keep them. > > That would (maybe) cure the symptoms, but don't you think that the > real bug should be found? I suggest that you wait with removal of the > files until then. > > Ulrich No, it won't cure the symptoms, just, shorten the number processed. Also it will eliminate a possible need to edit those old files like had been done recently. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
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