Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Announce: library-relink

[Robin Farine]

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 13.38, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> Yeah.  I moved over to
>
> address@hidden/library-relink--devel--1, which
> has all of the goodness, none of the corruption.

OK, thanks.

> > If so, do you have any idea what caused this (manual
> > intervention in the archive, baz, the library relink script
> > itself :-^, ...)?
>
> It's a bit mysterious, but I think what happend is that I did a
> library-add while the script was running, and this reused an
> inode number that the script already had in its contents cache. 
> So when the script got around to the newly-added revision, it
> misidentified the contents of a file, and relinked it to the
> wrong thing.

Ah, nasty. Did you already implement whatever is needed to prevent 
this from happening or should we ensure that no one accesses the 
library while running the script?

Robin