Mirrors missing patches/packages subdirectory for 15.0

bender647 · 02-04-2022, 06:42 AM

Minor thing, but I rsync the patches directory every night (patches/packages/ only, not the source) and it hasn't been created for 15.0. I guess when we have a security patch this will appear...

marav · 02-04-2022, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bender647

Minor thing, but I rsync the patches directory every night (patches/packages/ only, not the source) and it hasn't been created for 15.0. I guess when we have a security patch this will appear...

Most likely

But first, Let's give Pat a break :-)

chrisretusn · 02-04-2022, 07:37 AM

I mirror the slackware64-15.0 tree, the patches directory is there. You will not see any packages (or source) directory in patches until there are some.

FILE_LIST

Code:

Thu Feb  3 07:03:10 UTC 2022

Here is the file list for this directory.  If you are using a 
mirror site and find missing or extra files in the disk 
subdirectories, please have the archive administrator refresh
the mirror.

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2022-02-03 07:03 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  552 2012-09-20 18:06 ./CHECKSUMS.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  198 2012-09-20 18:06 ./CHECKSUMS.md5.asc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  575 2022-02-03 07:02 ./FILE_LIST
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   14 2022-02-03 07:03 ./MANIFEST.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  224 2012-09-20 18:06 ./PACKAGES.TXT

PACKAGES.TXT

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PACKAGES.TXT;  Thu Feb  3 07:03:10 UTC 2022

This file provides details on the Slackware packages found
in this directory.

Total size of all packages (compressed):  0 MB
Total size of all packages (uncompressed):  0 MB

GazL · 02-04-2022, 08:41 AM

Yes, I noticed this also as my slackup/scanscan script was trying to read its contents and aborting because of the missing directory.

I don't know whether the absence of patches/packages until something is placed in it is normal for these early days of a release or not.

Anyway, for my slackup/slackscan the workaround was to change my config file from:
/local/slackware/packages64/
/local/slackware/mirror/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/
/local/slackware/mirror/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/
/local/slackware/mirror/slackware64-15.0/extra/xv/

to:
/local/slackware/packages64/
/local/slackware/mirror/slackware64-15.0/patches/CHECKSUMS.md5
/local/slackware/mirror/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/
/local/slackware/mirror/slackware64-15.0/extra/xv/

Using the CHECKSUMS file instead of accessing the dir directly.