olpc-update -v 8.2-766 gets fakeroot error

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:55 AM, rihoward1 at gmail.com
<rihoward1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Attempting to run olpc-update -v 8.2-766 from root gets :
> "@ERROR: Unexpected server greeting: fakeroot error, while creating
> message channels: Invaalid argument
> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c
> (1383) [receiver=2.6.9] ... "
>
> This is from build 656 using olpc-update version 2.7 running from root.

That message just indicates high load on the updates server.  It's on
my to-do list to rewrite it to use rsync's --fake-super argument,
which should alleviate these problems, but I haven't gotten a chance
to do that yet.
 --scott

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