On 01 Aug 2007 13:55:57 -0400, DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com wrote:
"Kam Leo" kam.leo@gmail.com writes:
One distro, was it SUSE?, had the sync schedule of their mirrors. It would be really nice if Fedora mirrors provided that data, too.
What the DJGPP mirrors do is, the master writes a "mirror.ts" timestamp file, with the time (seconds since epoch) and type (full, partial, etc) in it. It does this hourly. Nightly, it reads all the registered mirrors' timestamps and determines which are keeping up to date and which aren't, and updates the web page accordingly.
Examples: http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/mirror.ts http://djgpp.linux-mirror.org/mirror.ts
Thanks, it's good to know that you have a means to check up on mirrors. It does not solve the issue at hand for the "got to have it now" user; i.e. how long a delay from announcement of a released package until it propagates to a given mirror.