On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:17:47AM +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> > >>What is going on with fedora extras metadata lately? > > > >Nothing. It's just the mirrors that choke on daily updates and don't sync > >safely and frequently enough. > > > This seems to be happening more often that we could hope for. > Is there a documented way to set up mirroring, to ENSURE that the > mirrors are in a consistent state? > If not - and I believe this has been brought up earlier (by myself). I > really think we could do with a simple timestamping mirror handshake > mechanism, kinda like what debian does. This would allow mirrors to > monitor for a special file and when that file is available, we know the > mirror is in a consistent state (as consistent as it's master - which > can also be tracked in this way). Mirrors could easily add a few lines > to their scripts to honor this kind of thing, without the need for > special mirroring tools. > > Just a suggestion Matt Domsch is working on just such a tool and is looking to have it in place for F7 release, afaik. The tool is Mirror Manager. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/RFR/MirrorManager He has a beta out there, iirc. If you have python/turbogears experience, I think he could use help on it. -- Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
