[haiku-sysadmin] Re: Daily Summary for svn.haiku-os.org
- From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-sysadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:38:49 +0200
On 2009-09-20 at 13:18:55 [+0200], Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 2009/9/20 Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > On 2009-09-20 at 08:42:02 [+0200], Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 2009/9/20 root on svn <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
[ ... ]
> > Last thing yesterday, I did a trac-admin resync, such that the test
> > installation of trac should reflect the current state of the corresponding
> > svnsync repo.
>
> Yes, that's what I thought, because the 'strange' changeset (4###)
> with user svnsync and dated today (instead of 6 years ago)
> disappeared.
>
> This could be a warning of a (potential) issue in the future though.
> What happens is that svnsync commits a revision (as user svnsync and
> dated today), then releases the lock and afterwards changes the
> metadata.
>
> Trac checks every page load whether the repository has changed. If a
> new changeset is added, it will load (and cache) its data. Now if
> someone requests a page before svnsync has updated the metadata, then
> that means that the cached data is inconsistent (and that would mean a
> manual trac-admin resync when that happens).
>
> Now this might be such a rare occasion (once a year) that we decide it
> is not the effort to look into it, so we might just wait until it
> happens some day and then see what to do, but if there is something
> that we can do to fix it now I am open for suggestions.
I think what we can do is to wait until the issue comes up again and in that
case try to invoke
trac-admin <path> resync <revision>
which (according to the docs) should resync just that revision.
cheers,
Oliver
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