Re: Debugging strange "corrupt pack" errors on SuSE 9

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2007, 04:20 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90706192120q6c64a854re589f27b3bdbc0d5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90706192117x53420c04o27f05e8fa6c338a5@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/20/07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > But because you push to a local repository (a mounted USB stick is
> > considered a local repo) then you don't get to negociate the pack
> > capabilities of the final destination, and therefore more "bad" delta
> > objects might sneak in again.
>
> How does that work? So any repo we push _from_ can override (and muck
> up) the destination repo, ignoring its config?
>
> That sounds a bit broken - the pack being built for a local
> destination should respect the settings of the destination repo.

OTOH, as a workaround, it _should_ work if I force a repack on the usb-repo after each push, right? It'll wear the USB disk out, waste human+cpu time and kill some kittens along the way, but it'll do for the time being.

cheers,