On 1/27/08, Gerhard Brauer <gerhard.brauer@web.de> wrote:
Hello,
i'm working on a script to check the sync status of the mirrors. Actually i use ftp.archlinux.org as a reference but Pierre Schmitz point to me that this is also only a mirror which must not be in sync.
So is there a server (ftp or http) from where i could get the mtime, size and the repository db file as a reference? Pierre told me that he could run this script on his server, but for testing and bugfixing ;-) i need a reliable source. At the moment it seems i got too many false positives...
no. there is not a publicly accessible location of the repo db file other than mirror servers. ftp.archlinux.org is the best candidate. the two servers (round robin dns for ftp.archlinux.org) synchronize approximately every hour.