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Date:      Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:49:15 +0100
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: One way to make sure that a mirror is up to date
Message-ID:  <20030125154915.GG6893@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030124135351.GI66269@isnic.is>
References:  <20030124135351.GI66269@isnic.is>

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Olafur Osvaldsson(oli@isnic.is)@2003.01.24 13:53:51 +0000:
> I would like to suggest a file somewhere in the archive wich is updated
> regularly with a timestamp (? date +%s > FreeBSD/DATE ?) so that there is
> an easy way to confirm a mirror to be synced.

IIRC, the Debian project does something similar, but they store the
timestamps to a magic directory into files named after the mirror host.
This also makes it possible to analyze where the distribution flows
through and in what time.

Regards,
/k

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