Axel Thimm wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 06:10:20PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
How is the Fedora Extras mirrorlist determined? Is it maintained? I
just noticed that my extras packages weren't being updated with
packages I knew had been deployed. The reason is that it was using a
mirror which is out-of-date. And not a few minutes out-of-date but
having a repomd.xml from May 27.
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/fedora/linux/extras/5/ have
repomd.xml's for both i386 and x86_64 that is from May 27.
ftp://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/ have
repomd.xml's from Mar 21.
It would be nice to have mirrors being checked automatically by some
script and whine when the mirror is out of sync for some given
time. It is probably enough to test the size/timestamp of the
metadata.
Tony Nelson has made some efforts in this direction:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2006-May/msg04193.html
He has published repoinsync under the gpl on
http://www.georgeanelson.com/reposinsync.htm
It would be good if such a service was hosted at fedora.redhat.com,
perhaps with a master list of mirrors/paths to check. Mirrors with
up2date repodata (filelist.xml) would then be actively published in a
dynamic mirrorlist:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever,
ensuring that only mirrors with up2date filelist would be accessed.
This would probably best done a few times a day. Or is such a thing
already in development ?
DaveT.
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