On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 00:28 -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:36:04AM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > >wouldn't that mean you'd need a hostname and txt entry for each > >repository on a server? > > I imagined that it would be like a DNS serial number, which is incremented, > on the master zone only, for each change to the master repository. The > mirrors could also use it to tell if an rsync is necessary. Even could > write the serial number to a file in the repository to make it part of the > rsync. > > So, a zone for extras, a zone for core...? > I just don't see the dns thing being feasible - especially for mirrors. It would just be a pain for a site with lots and lots of repos and I'm not sure of it's real advantage. -sv
