[K12OSN] K12LTSP 5.0.0 Release Candidate #5

[Eric Harrison]

Lance Jahnig wrote:
>> From: Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us>
>> Reply-To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
>> <k12osn at redhat.com>
>> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools."
>> <k12osn at redhat.com>
>> Subject: [K12OSN] K12LTSP 5.0.0 Release Candidate #5
>> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:21:18 -0700
>>
>> K12LTSP 5.0.0 release candidate #5 has been uploaded.
>>
>> This build includes an updated kernel for the terminals.
>>
>>
>> Please give this build a very thorough test and report any and all
>> issues that you see. If no show-stopping bugs are reported, we'll
>> release this as the official 5.0.0 on Monday.
>>
>>
>>
>> The repositories have been updated, if you have an earlier beta
>> installed you can simply run "yum update".
>>
>>
>> Pentium/Xeon/Athlon/etc 32bit version:
>>
>>   ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/5.0.0-32bit/iso/
>>   rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::testing/5.0.0-32bit/iso/ .
>>
>> Opteron/EM64T/etc 64bit version:
>>
>>   ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/5.0.0-64bit/iso/
>>   rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::testing/5.0.0-64bit/iso/ .
>>
>>
>> -Eric
>>
> 
> Unable to rsync
> 
> [root]#rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::testing/5.0.0-32bit/iso/ .
> receiving file list ...
> rsync: link_stat "5.0.0-32bit/iso/." (in testing) failed: Too many
> levels of symbolic links (40)
> 0 files to consider
> 
> sent 4 bytes  received 17 bytes  42.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
> main.c(1298) [receiver=2.6.8]
> 
> [root]# rsync -av --list-only k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::
> rh73-updates    Red Hat 7.3 updates
> rh80-updates    Red Hat 8.0 updates
> testing         experimental rpms
> K12LTSP         Use this if you want to mirror the K12LTSP distro
> K12LTSP-EL      K12LTSP "Enterprise" ISO images, 32bit version (Pentium,
> Athlon)
> K12LTSP-EL-64bit        K12LTSP "Enterprise" ISO images, 64bit version
> (Opteron, EM64T)
> K12LTSP-mirror  Use this if you want to mirror the K12LTSP distro
> K12Linux-mirror Use this if you want to mirror the K12Linux distro
> K12LTSP-beta    development branch of K12LTSP, not intended for
> production use
> K12LTSP-apt     mirror of the K12LTSP apt repositories
> K12LTSP-pre     pre-release branch of K12LTSP
> K12LTSP-4.0-i386        K12LTSP 4.0.x install tree
> K12LTSP-4.1-i386        K12LTSP 4.1.1 install tree
> K12LTSP-4.2-i386        K12LTSP 4.2.1 install tree
> K12LTSP-4.4-i386        K12LTSP 4.4.1 install tree
> K12LTSP-all     The whole K12LTSP 4.2.1 install tree, updates, and ISOs.
> K12LTSP-4.2.1-all       The whole K12LTSP 4.2.1 install tree, updates,
> and ISOs.
> K12LTSP-4.4.1-all       The whole K12LTSP 4.4.1 install tree, updates,
> and ISOs.
> 
> If I look at the folder listings on the ftp server the
> testing/5.0.0-32bit redirects to ../5.0.0-32bit
> 
> Thanks

Yes, it appears that rsync gets quite unhappy about that.

I made a change so that rsync will work while I'm in the process of
moving everything around for the official release...

-Eric