On 9/22/06, Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
It would be really nice if there were some good, universal and simple way to see how updated a site mirror is. One approach that I find to be working well is what debian is suggesting for their mirrors ( http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror ). Not only does this "trace method" provide info on when the mirror was last sync'ed, it also shows the "route" of the mirroring, i.e. what mirror this mirror mirrors from (confusing yet true :o)). Although this does not sort the actual problem of the stale mirrors, it will give people an easy way to monitor their own (local?) mirrors and perhaps even allow people to select a few often-updated near-by mirrors, instead of getting packages from a stale mirror across the ocean.
It is fairly simple to compare the timestamps in the repomd.xml files. If the timestamps are older than the master, then the mirror is out-of-date. This doesn't help with mirrors which are in the middle of syncing or had a failure. Mirrors could use the rsync --delay-updates option to make the updates more atomic. - Ian -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
