mirrorlist cgi

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 21:08 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 01:59 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
> > seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > > That's completely correct.
> > > 
> > > there are no UK-specific mirrors in the rawhide mirror list that are
> > > current. so it won't hand any back to you.
> > 
> > oh fair enough, but how does it "know" if 
> > http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/development/x86_64/
> > is up-to-date or not?
> 
> 
> Read the check-mirrors.py script in the cvs link I pointed to earlier.
> 
> In short - if it doesn't have the same repomd.xml as the mirror master
> does then it's not current.

Forgive my complete lack of mirror knowledge, but are mirrors told to
rsync this file after the rest of the repo is updated?  Otherwise I
would think you'd still catch mirrors in the middle of a repo update if
not.

josh