#7496 NORM 8.2.0 (: 'olpc-update debian' yells lots of scaaaaary things at me

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#7496: 'olpc-update debian' yells lots of scaaaaary things at me
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           Reporter:  dilinger      |       Owner:  cscott              
               Type:  defect        |      Status:  reopened            
           Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
          Component:  not assigned  |     Version:                      
         Resolution:                |    Keywords:  olpc-update         
        Next_action:  never set     |    Verified:  0                   
Deployment_affected:                |   Blockedby:                      
           Blocking:                |  
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Changes (by jtolds):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 so, I ran 'olpc-update debian'
 and during all of the update hints (irsync pristine, irsync dirty, rsync,
 etc), it failed with the error 'rsync: link_stat "root/etc/alsa/." (in
 build-debian) failed: No such file or directory (2)'

 so, i looked in the source of the bitfrost update stuff, and in the
 irsync.py library file there's a hack for preserving something about
 "var", "etc/alsa", and "etc/avahi", or something, but my guess is that the
 debian distribution for olpc-update doesn't have the etc/alsa source file
 remotely.

 so, anyway, i fixed it by wrapping those so-called "hack" rsync calls with
 try/except blocks, but olpc-update is broken for the debian release.

 i'm currently using olpc build 802 (stream 8.2.1; variant devel_jffs2)

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