On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 14:43 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote: > Hi > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, the fedora tree > has no built-in semantics for letting other mirrors (perhaps even > clients) know if they are fully synced or in the middle of a mirroring > operation. > > How about documenting a way to use some sort of semaphore (file) that > can be checked to make sure that mirroring has finished? Mirrors, > clients retrieving their data from a certain mirror could then > check/wait for the mirror to finish or find another mirror in the meantime? > The document could also share a few ideas on what to include/exclude for > certain types of mirrors, whether (or when) local createrepo should be > setup and such? 1. wrong list for this discussion - the mirrors discussion list is more appropriate 2. you'd need the mirrors to use a consistent script in order to ensure that the files were retrieved in a correct order such that the semaphore file was retrieved last. This has proved to be harder to get folks to do than you would expect. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
