On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Bram Neijt wrote:
Well, I've given it some thought and I think the following set-up
might be a good idea:
Once a month or just when you guys feel like it, run a small spider on
the main mirroring server that generated .metalink files for every ISO
image that has a SHA1SUMS file which mentions it's SHA1SUM. The spider
can get the mirror list from parsing the MirrorManager page (public
list if needed).
That would give a light-weight and simple system which would easily
allow for metalinks to be generated. I could write something like this
in the public domain in a language of your choice (Ruby, Python, C++,
Bash, SH, Make).
Would something like that be possible for the current infrastucture?
Would that be possible?
I've got to admit I'm not keen on anything here that doesn't start and end
on our own servers. In what way, exactly, would this benefit Fedora?
-Mike