Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Hanna
Hi, I don't think hashes are a good way to do that. The Repositories are quite large I'm not sure what value is the right one from this [1] statistics page. Either way, after every update the mirror would effectively block for the time the hash is computed, since everything has to be read. Anyway

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-15 Thread Mark Lee
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 22:54 +0100, Guus Snijders wrote: > Op 15 jan. 2014 19:17 schreef "Mark Lee" het volgende: > > > [...] > > > > There is a file called lastsync. It is read < > > > > http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/lastsync> > > > > > > Yes, I see that there's a check script but wh

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-15 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 15 jan. 2014 19:17 schreef "Mark Lee" het volgende: > [...] > > > There is a file called lastsync. It is read < > > > http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/lastsync> > > > > Yes, I see that there's a check script but what is it? I'd like to know > > how that link calculates percent synchr

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-15 Thread Mark Lee
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 13:10 -0500, Mark Lee wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 11:15 -0500, Simon Gomizelj wrote: > > Not to be that guy... but your link explains. Like right in the first 5 > > sentences. > > > > > The check script runs on a regular basis and polls for the lastsync file > > in the roo

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-15 Thread Mark Lee
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 11:15 -0500, Simon Gomizelj wrote: > Not to be that guy... but your link explains. Like right in the first 5 > sentences. > > > The check script runs on a regular basis and polls for the lastsync file > in the root of our repository layout. This file is regularly updated on t

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.01.2014 17:15, schrieb Simon Gomizelj: >> The check script runs on a regular basis and polls for the lastsync file > in the root of our repository layout. This file is regularly updated on the > central repository, so checking the value within allows one to see if the > mirror has synced rece

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Gomizelj
Not to be that guy... but your link explains. Like right in the first 5 sentences. > The check script runs on a regular basis and polls for the lastsync file in the root of our repository layout. This file is regularly updated on the central repository, so checking the value within allows one to s

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-14 Thread Mark Lee
On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 23:37 +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Mark Lee wrote: > > Salutations, > > > > Pardon me but does anyone know how mirrors are synced and flagged out of > > date? > > > > Regards, > > Mark > > > > -- > > Mark Lee > > I don't understand your

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-14 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Mark Lee wrote: > Salutations, > > Pardon me but does anyone know how mirrors are synced and flagged out of > date? > > Regards, > Mark > > -- > Mark Lee I don't understand your question. What do you mean by 'how'? https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ http

[arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-14 Thread Mark Lee
Salutations, Pardon me but does anyone know how mirrors are synced and flagged out of date? Regards, Mark -- Mark Lee signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part