Keeping the Devel Mirrors Up-to-Date

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Fri Sep 22 12:48:46 UTC 2006


Paul Dickson wrote:
> Has anyone done any tracking of the fedora-development mirrors to see how
> well they've been at keeping up-to-date?
> 
> I just did a "yum list extras" and it listed items that were listed in
> Wednesday's rawhide report.  At times, I've even resorted to tcpdumping
> yum's run to capture the requested host names so I could assign them
> 127.0.0.2 in my /etc/hosts file, just so I could apply development
> updates that were several days old.
> 
> 	-Paul
> 

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.

/Thomas





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