From owner-freebsd-hubs Sat Jan 25 7:49: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79E037B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 07:49:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E01743EB2 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 07:48:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 8141 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jan 2003 15:49:15 -0000 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:49:15 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Olafur Osvaldsson 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> References: <20030124135351.GI66269@isnic.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030124135351.GI66269@isnic.is> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.rohrbach.de/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- > Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile. --Karl Lehenbauer WebMonster Community Project -- Reliable and quick since 1998 -- All on BSD http://www.webmonster.de/ - ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ - http://www.rohrbach.de/ GnuPG: 0xDEC948A6 D/E BF11 83E8 84A1 F996 68B4 A113 B393 6BF4 DEC9 48A6 REVOKED: 0x2964BF46 D/E 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 REVOKED: 0x4C44DA59 RSA F9 A0 DF 91 74 07 6A 1C 5F 0B E0 6B 4D CD 8C 44 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message