[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Florian Pritz <bluewind at server-speed.net> wrote:
> On 09.03.2010 14:37, Ionut Biru wrote:
>> On 03/09/2010 03:17 PM, Florian Pritz wrote:
>>> On 09.03.2010 02:20, keenerd wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:13:38 -0600, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>  wrote
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM, keenerd<keenerd at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> There does not seem to be a documented "standard rsync" command for
>>>>>> the mirrors to use, so I'm making all sorts of wild assumptions about
>>>>>> what a mirror's rsync is doing.
>>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Local_Mirror#The_synchronization_script
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The real mirrors use that too?  The whole "local mirror" title kind of
>>>> threw me.  I was looking at
>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors .  My
>>>> bad.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Afaik not every mirror uses that script and it's quite hard to reach all
>>> the admins because there is no mailinglist (though I've heared it's
>>> going to be set up).
>>>
>>
>> are you taking from your experience or you did find a mirror that does
>> store old packages? afaik only kernel.org mirror does that but they were
>> contacted.
>>
>
> <Romashka> I'm trying to force all admins to use the same rsync options
>
> Though that's from February and I don't what's the current status.
>
> Multi tier mirroring is being done atm and I've edited the mirror script
> from the wiki to fetch only checksums and thus being able to run every
> minute which would greatly increase the distribution speed, but I still
> have to test for bugs. If anyone wants to help:
> http://karif.server-speed.net/~flo/tmp/mirrorsync.sh.txt

We're bandwidth and rsync-slot constrained, not "slow at
distribution". It seems like this solution is not solving a problem we
currently have...

-Dan