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| -rw-r--r-- | pym/emerge/__init__.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pym/emerge/__init__.py b/pym/emerge/__init__.py index 5a1fedbd4..10dfe9d3c 100644 --- a/pym/emerge/__init__.py +++ b/pym/emerge/__init__.py @@ -3983,7 +3983,12 @@ def action_sync(settings, trees, mtimedb, myopts, myaction): exitcode = os.EX_OK servertimestamp = 0 - if mytimestamp != 0: + # Even if there's no timestamp available locally, fetch the + # timestamp anyway as an initial probe to verify that the server is + # responsive. This protects us from hanging indefinitely on a + # connection attempt to an unresponsive server which rsync's + # --timeout option does not prevent. + if True: mycommand = rsynccommand.split() mycommand.append(dosyncuri.rstrip("/") + \ "/metadata/timestamp.chk") |