[arch-general] Searching reference server for mirror checking

[eliott]

On 1/28/08, Gerhard Brauer <gerhard.brauer at web.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Ok, i'am 99% ready with the script (mostly output and "internally
> cleaning"). I put the output as txt attachement in this mail.
>
> Short:
> Overall Status
> --------------------------------------
> Mirrors tested..................... : 49
> Mirrors with connection problems... : 2
> Mirror with data collection problems: 5
>
> Mirrors OUT of sync................ : 25
>
> Legend for txt file:
> size means *.db.tar.gz size reported by either FTP or HTTP mirror
> mtime also taken from protocols, converted to UTC if needed
> md5sum after doenlaod db file.
>
> Some mirrors seams to have the correct file size, but mtime and/or
> md5sum differs. I've checked some of them and there seams to bee
> slightly corrupted files on there.
>
> Next i will version pumping on the script (it's a ruby script) from now
> 0.1 to 1.0 ;-) and then we could see if this is something usefull for
> us.

I think it would be a very nice thing to have someone run
periodically, and maybe send reports to the dev team...so that we can
know which mirrors are not syncing properly. As of right now, we
mostly have to rely on end user reports of problems (reactive instead
of proactive).