On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 20:33 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:19:46 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > The yum folks are still looking into it. The really bizarre thing is > > that there is no problem with the package itself, in fact it's seen in > > other arches, and in those other arch directories it's a hardlink back > > to the actual file somewhere else on the filesystem. That's the way it > > is for each of those arch trees. It's a real headscratcher of a > > problem. > > Unless I'm misreading the code, it's a race-condition. mash creates the > metadata for all architectures in parallel. One process per arch. The > createrepo checksum cache file I/O [1] is not protected against concurrent > access. With odd timing, it can happen that one process reads an empty > checksum file that has just been opened for writing by another process. > Give it a try. Add a safety check after reading a checksum file. > That tickles a part of my brain, I think I speculated that this was the problem while in the shower or something, and then completely forgot to pursue it once I got ready to work. It is a possibility. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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