Two same rsync commands give different results on two debian mirrors.

[Paul Slootman]

On Tue 14 Apr 2015, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> 
> See the following commands:
> 
> ___________________________
> 
> $ rsync -rmnv -f +_README -f -_* ftp.is.co.za::mirror/ftp.debian.org/
> ftp.us.debian.org/debian
> 
> [snipped]
> 
> receiving file list ... done
> 
> sent 23 bytes  received 9 bytes  1.42 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)
> 
> $ rsync -rmnv -f +_README -f -_* ftp.cn.debian.org::debian
> 
> [snipped]
> 
> receiving file list ... done
> drwxr-xr-x          4,096 2015/04/14 11:34:19 .
> -rw-rw-r--          1,370 2015/01/10 18:21:28 README
> 
> sent 47 bytes  received 1,389 bytes  574.40 bytes/sec
> total size is 1,370  speedup is 0.95 (DRY RUN)
> _________________________
> 
> Why the same rsync commands give different results on the above two debian 
> mirrors?  The first one failed to find anything even the README exists, 
> while the second one succeed for the job.

The contents of those locations is entirely different, which becomes
obvious if you simply run:

$ rsync ftp.is.co.za::mirror/ftp.debian.org/
$ rsync ftp.cn.debian.org::debian

If you want the same tree, use
ftp.is.co.za::mirror/ftp.debian.org/ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ for the
first location.


Paul