How distfiles mirrors know to fetch new files

[Einar Johan Sømåen]

I run the mirror-ports script I was told to run, daily. And rsync the  
rest.


Den 21. feb.. 2009 kl. 08.50 skrev Ryan Schmidt:

> Dear admins of the European MacPorts distfiles mirrors,
>
> It appears that the files on the mirrors are going stale, that is,  
> files for newly-added or updated ports are not appearing on your  
> mirrors. Do you have any mechanism in place to periodically update  
> your mirrors? William Siegrist suggests that you should poll for  
> changes or just run "port mirror all" from time to time.
>
> The California mirror is kept up to date via a post-commit script  
> that runs as soon as anything is committed to the repository. I  
> imagine this is possible because the repository server and the  
> mirror server are near one another, but perhaps there would be a  
> more general way to have the repository server ping all the mirrors  
> to tell them it's time to re-fetch a given port, for example by  
> simply accessing a URL like
>
> http://<mirror>/refetch.php/<port>
>
> refetch.php could be written to only accept connections from the  
> repository server to prevent abuse.
>
>
> On Feb 10, 2009, at 20:07, William Siegrist wrote:
>
>> On Feb 10, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> We have three distfiles mirrors, in the US, Norway and Sweden:
>>>
>>> US: http://distfiles.macports.org/
>>> NO: http://trd.no.distfiles.macports.org/
>>> SE: http://arn.se.distfiles.macports.org/
>>>
>>> In /graphviz the US mirror has distfiles up to the current port  
>>> version, graphviz-2.21.20090209.0545.tar.gz.
>>>
>>> But Sweden only has files up to graphviz-2.21.20090106.0545.tar.gz.
>>>
>>> Norway only has files up to graphviz-2.21.20081216.0545.tar.gz.
>>>
>>> I believe the US mirror, which runs right next to the Subversion  
>>> repository, gets updated in a post-commit hook, so as soon as  
>>> someone commits a new version of a port, the mirror fetches the  
>>> new file.
>>>
>>> How do Norway and Sweden get informed that they should fetch new  
>>> files? I fear they're not getting informed at all.
>>
>> You might want to CC the mirror owners, but in any case, they have  
>> to poll for changes (via RSS, mailing list, whatever) or just  
>> perform full "port mirror <port>" runs periodically.
>
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