How distfiles mirrors know to fetch new files

[Ryan Schmidt]

Ok, I don't recall that script. Could you show it to me or remind me  
where it came from? Thanks.


On Feb 22, 2009, at 15:49, Einar Johan Sømåen wrote:

> 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.