But it would be nice if the mirrors carried some kind of generation-number which yum checked.
That would only tell you that the file with the generation-number had been synced. It wouldn't tell you that all of the rpms had been.
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I see. So the rsyncing on the mirrors is done on the live files, there's no script trickery to only put the whole tree live when the mirror is synced?
Fair enough.