docs/103730 [mail-archive]: duplicated file in mail archive

[eazy bsd]

> From where are you downloading these files?

cvsup11.freebsd.org. though it is experiencing gnats_misc_103814 at the
moment
so anyone using it will need to do so by its ip, 63.87.62.77.

> Are you sure that the host you use to retrieve 
> these files is still up to date?

yes. grabbing these supfile lines...
 *default compress delete use-rel-suffix
 mail-archive    release=current prefix=freebsd_mail-archive
from cvsup11 results in this evidence...

ls -altT freebsd_mail-archive/archive | head
-rw-r--r--   1 mirror  mirror    36721 Oct 25 23:01:19 2006
freebsd-advocacy
-rw-r--r--   1 mirror  mirror    87904 Oct 25 22:52:20 2006
freebsd-mobile
-rw-r--r--   1 mirror  mirror    21778 Oct 25 22:40:16 2006
freebsd-perl
-rw-r--r--   1 mirror  mirror  1142032 Oct 25 22:36:55 2006
freebsd-ports-bugs
-rw-r--r--   1 mirror  mirror   750956 Oct 25 22:36:39 2006
freebsd-stable

date ; date -u
Wed Oct 25 23:49:54 EDT 2006
Thu Oct 26 03:49:54 UTC 2006

to be sure, i nuked checkouts.current and the two files in question,
did
cvsup -x -L 2 cvsup11.freebsd.org and the result is exactly the same
sums and
dates as before.

a local wrapper script also filters cvsup output for unknown messages
and
diffs the on disk file index to the checkouts.current index. nothing
unusal to
report from that.

> On freefall, those files have different checksums and are
> different in a peculiar way.

fwiw, cvsup5 also has the same exact files, so i suspect the master
site is
the source. perhaps including any 'magic' that cvsupd may be applying
to
'peculiar ways'.

along with figuring out the root cause...
maybe increment the timestamps by a few seconds.
maybe unpack both of them, lint check both for message count and
mbox(5)
format, concatenate, recheck for total message count and mbox(5)
format, gzip
to correct name standard and mirror.

Software version: SNAP_16_1h
Protocol version: 17.0
Operating system: FreeBSD4
/usr/local/bin/cvsup:
        libz.so.2 => /usr/lib/libz.so.2 (0x28220000)
        libutil.so.3 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 (0x2822d000)
        libmd.so.2 => /usr/lib/libmd.so.2 (0x28236000)
        libXaw.so.7 => /usr/local/lib/libXaw.so.7 (0x2823f000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x28292000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x282a7000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x282b4000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x282fd000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x28306000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x2831d000)
        libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x283d9000)
        libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x283f4000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/local/xfree86cvs20040412/lib/libXpm.so.4
(0x2848e000)
        libXThrStub.so.6 =>
/usr/local/xfree86cvs20040412/lib/libXThrStub.so.6 (0x2849c000)
MD5 (/usr/local/bin/cvsup) = d400f3fb17a23c6e3c92b25dd9b218ff
4.11-STABLE #0: Sun Jul 30 2006 i386 SMP


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