[Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic : Debian repodata generation issue

[Robert Paschedag]

Am 24. Januar 2019 11:41:45 MEZ schrieb philippe bidault <philippe.bidault at gmail.com>:
>Hi all,
>
>Something strange is happening on my Spacewalk 2.9: taskomatic is
>regenerating my Ubuntu repodatas some times to times:
>
>INFO   | jvm 1    | 2019/01/24 03:34:00 | 2019-01-24 03:34:00,144
>[Thread-3446] INFO 
>com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter
>- File Modified Date:2019-01-24 03:05:24 CET
>INFO   | jvm 1    | 2019/01/24 03:34:00 | 2019-01-24 03:34:00,144
>[Thread-3446] INFO 
>com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter
>- Channel Modified Date:2019-01-24 03:33:49
>CET
>INFO   | jvm 1    | 2019/01/24 03:34:00 | 2019-01-24 03:34:00,374
>[Thread-3447] INFO 
>com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter
>- Generating new DEB repository for channel
>bionic-security
>INFO   | jvm 1    | 2019/01/24 03:34:00 | 2019-01-24 03:34:00,544
>[Thread-3446] INFO 
>com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter
>- Generating new DEB repository for channel
>bionic-updates
>
>I know that this is the purpose of taskomatic, but this is really
>annoying
>as the "Packages" and "Release" files are "manually" generated, thus
>having
>taskomatic triggering their re-generation just break everything.
>
>I don't think remember having seen such behaviour in Spacewaok 2.8. Is
>there a way to force taskomatic to ignore the DEB repodatas ?
>
>Regards,
>Philippe.

This always happens. You have to make sure, that you keep (transfer) the timestamp of the original Packages and Packages.gz file after you modified them. See "touch -r ..."

Robert


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