Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:44:07AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> When collecting information on the SYNC variable for my Summer of Code >> gentoo stats project I'd like to check if the URL in SYNC is publically >> known or some private/secret rsync mirror. The page behind >> http://mirrorstats.gentoo.org/rsync/ > Mirrorstats is known to be out of date, because somebody needs to sit > down and integrate it with the datasources, so manual updates aren't > needed. Even better, would be hooking it into bouncer2 for the sentry > output.
What are these datasources? What kind of integration are you thinking of? > It needs somebody to update it and hook at into the SOURCE of this data: > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors3.xml > > But wait, you say, that page is distfiles mirrors? Mirror-admin have a > common data source, non-published as it contains private contact details > for each administrator. From that data source, mirrors3 and rsync > mirrors gets updated. I see. > mirrors.xml - old page, only used by mirrorselect now, manually updated. > mirrors3.xml - new page, generated from internal dataset. > mirrors2.xml - not a real page (See > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml?passthru=1 and the magic > <mirrorlist> element. Compared to [..]/mirrors.xml?passthru=1 it seems to me that on mirror3 [..]/mirrors3.xml?passthru=1 passthru= is working in the opposite direction: 1 turns style sheets on 0 turns them off (default) The one for mirrors3 makes less sense to me. Is this inconsistency intended? > Relatedly, the original author of mirrorselect retired from Gentoo > several years ago. The tools-portage team maintain it now, so you should > co-operate with them. It would be nice if they implemented the mirrors3 > usage too, I think mirror-admin asked them more than a year ago, but I > can't find the bug. I agree that would be a good idea and another reason to touch mirrorselect. Does it have a source repo somewhere?, not seen any. > In the meantime, for your original question: >> is the URL in SYNC public or private > Simply check by matching against gentoo.org$ in the hostname part of the > field. Good idea, now implemented: http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=smolt-gentoo.git;a=commitdiff;h=aeb14433e7c29a6045fb702775a3455ebb61aa1d > P.S. Please report empty SYNC variables too ;-). These turn up when > users/devs have their tree coming from a VCS instead of rsync. Good point. Now also implemented, same commit as above. Sebastian
