Cygport uploading different files to different arch directorys for noarch packages

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Nov 5 23:25:00 GMT 2015


On 11/5/2015 5:12 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> I'm seeing what seems to be some very odd behaviour from Cygport when
>> uploading noarch packages: Cygport uploads all the packages for the
>> 64-bit architecture, but only the main and source packages for 32-bit
>> architecture.
>
> Thanks for the troubleshooting and detailed report.  This is just weird.
> The best I can tell is that it's a bug in lftp.  For some reason the lftp
> mirror command isn't working properly within the cygport environment, half
> of the time. ??
>
> So I suggest you call this problem to the attention of the lftp maintainer.
> Uh... oops.

FWIW, I've seen occasional failures of the lftp mirror command outside 
of cygport.  But I never had a reproducible case.  Usually I could just 
repeat the mirror command and it would work the second time.

Ken



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