On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:06:48PM +0100, Bram Neijt wrote: > Oh, no, everything would be running on your own servers. You probably > thought there would be an outside server involved because of the word > "spider". I would just write some code, somebody with the right rights > would have to run it. > > With spider, I meant a script that would parse the HTML from the > mirrormanager, so the mirrormanager wouldn't need a patch. Everything > would of course run on your servers. > > So the idea is: > I write a script that uses a mirrorlist (which it gets from parsing > the HTML, or in some other way) to generate .metalink files for all > the .iso files on the mirror. The metalinks would just be placed on > the mirror next to the .iso files. > > Because the script would not have to do anything computational > intensive (SHA1 sums have already been calculated) it could be run at > any time you guys feel like it. > > As I said above, I'd be happy to create the script, but somebody would > have to say they would be willing to run it. I'm only asking: if I > post the code, would anybody be able use it? You don't want to spider this data all over again (the HTML pages are really quite bare...) - you really want to get it from the MM database directly. I'd much prefer to see efforts aimed in that direction, than for a throwaway implementation that doesn't use the MM database. -Matt -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
