On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 19:23 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote: > > > Ok, I'll have to ping some other people on this. > > > > The only problem I have with updating the original mirror lists is that > > the mirrors are not always out of sync. sometimes they're only out of > > sync for a day or so. So fixing them would mean having to put back the > > broken mirror later if it suddenly resynchronized. > > > > Now, if I got the time I wouldn't mind putting all the mirror results in > > a little database and tracking them over time. so that mirrors that are > > in sync the majority of the time don't get checked as often or some such > > thing. > > So this should be the following code then: > for m in mirrors: > if m.timestamps.has_key(arch): > if m.timestamps[arch] == canon.timestamps[arch]: > if debug: print 'adding %s' % m.url > glob_urls.append(m.url) > if m.country: > if not country_specific.has_key(m.country): > country_specific[m.country] = [] > if debug: print 'adding to %s: %s' % (m.country, m.url) > country_specific[m.country].append(m.url) > > Items I could think off: > - Timestamps are only checked for the big list, not for the per-country lists. fixed in cvs. Thank you - I just hadn't indented it one layer :) > - You could also allow all timestamps which are not older than 2 days in addition > to the exact match (which will then depend on good time setting on the machine > doing the checks). Another possibility would be to allow older timestamps if their > delta to the current timestamp is not too high, but that would then depend on > frequent updates to go out. but that means the repos don't match - which will play hell when retrieving metadata. I thought about this one a while and decided it's either an exact match or it is a failure. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
