Hi Dan, On Wednesday, 16 Feb 2005, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: mirrors > Severity: wishlist
AFAICS if your mirror-admin uses the standart mirror-script from http://www.nl.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync all these things already happen. > There should be a standard URL(s) on leaf nodes (machines users list > in /etc/apt/sources.list) so users can see > * time last mirror fetch run started see timestamp of Archive-Update-in-Progress-${HOSTNAME} > * time last mirror fetch run ended see timestamp of project/trace/{$HOSTNAME} > * if run is currently in progress look for file Archive-Update-in-Progress-${HOSTNAME} > * some statistics, etc. > Of course this should not be a million line long log file, but just a > few lines file. But all of this only work if you persue your local mirror admin to use the script from above mentioned URL. I enhanced that script a bit (which can be found at http://helas.dyndns.org/~hel/debian/anonftpsync-new) so pool is synced before packages lists. > http://www.nl.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror mentions project/trace. > However that seems to only have one item from above, and no comment > as to what item it is next to it in the file. Greetings -- In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. -- Mark Twain
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