From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 7 12:00:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28053 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:00:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28046 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:00:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09956; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:55:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdrq9952; Thu Jan 7 19:55:11 1999 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:55:08 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen cc: jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS issues In-Reply-To: <19990107074732.28807.qmail@ns.oeno.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG there should be a file in the central repository that is changed every hour by a cron job... that would give us a good way to check whether a particular mirror is up-to date, and to check the lag. the file would simply contain the time in GMT.. On 7 Jan 1999, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > > > What happens if you cvsup from a site that has an older version of the > > > tree than you do? > > > Since the relevant mirror sites all update themselves hourly from > > freefall, that's unlikely. You would have to run cvsup twice in > > an hour for it to happen. It could still happen if you lost the > > connection and then reconnected to a different server. But even then > > the damage would be fairly small. Any changes that existed on the > > first server but not on the second server would be taken away. But > > normally, not much happens in an hour in the FreeBSD repository. And > > those changes that were removed would come back again on your next > > update. > > That's when everything is working right. > > If all of the mirror sites are basically independent, there's no way > to know for sure that all of the mirror sites are working properly, > one of them may even be several days behind, for whatever reason (like > broken networks isolating it from freefall). > > I would prefer to know that when I run cvsup, I'm going to get a newer > version of the FreeBSD repository, not an older one. When using a > specific mirror, something has to get *really* screwed up for that to > happen. Of course I don't use any of the US mirrors myself, anyhow, > but I suspect that losing changes may cause unexpected problems. Use > your imagination. ;--) > > At the very least, problems with one mirror could cause significant > increases in traffic on all mirrors. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message