Ports rsync not working?

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

Thanks for explaining.  It looks like it is better now.  I was not
expecting a long recharge time, but this is reasonable under the
circumstances.


On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 7:54 PM Ryan Carsten Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

> On Dec 3, 2024, at 18:16, Dave Allured wrote:
>
> It looks like the ports tarball is not synchronizing for the past 9 hours
> or so.  This means that selfupdate is not receiving today's Macports
> updates.  According to a README in macports-infrastructure, this should be
> synchronizing every 30 minutes.
>
> Well the private server starts mprsyncup every half hour or so, if it is
> not already running, but these days with 40,000 ports in the collection it
> can take an hour or more to run.
>
> And the public server syncs from the private server every half hour or so,
> if a sync is not already running, but how long a sync takes depends on how
> much data needs to be transferred.
>
> Am I misinterpreting, or is something broken?
>
> Try again? According to
> Mirror-Status ftp.fau.de (ftp.uni-erlangen.de)
> <http://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-mirror-status.cgi?mirror=macports>
> ftp.fau.de
> <http://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-mirror-status.cgi?mirror=macports>
> [image: favicon.ico]
> <http://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-mirror-status.cgi?mirror=macports>
> <http://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-mirror-status.cgi?mirror=macports>
> The most recent sync from the private server to the public one took 7
> hours 48 minutes to complete. Most other recent syncs complete in less than
> an hour. The most likely reason for this outlier is if large files
> (archives and/or distfiles) had to be transferred, for example if a large
> port was updated.
>
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