On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 23:08 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > >>>>> Your repository data is way out of date, so you still see the > >>>>> conflict we fixed yesterday afternoon. > >>>> > >>>> it's at download.opensuse.org > >>> > >>> Which is a redirector to dozens of mirrors, all not quite in sync ;) > >> > >> Which is a royal PITA. Being re-directed to a site that is either not in > >> sync or is off line is not good. Perhaps the system doing the > >> re-direction can check the site before doing the re-directing. > > > > That's exactly what we are doing -- but checking for files that don't have > > a version number (like the files in /repodata/), isn't trivial. > > But you have timestamp and size. > > Cheers -e
All it would take is one file (could be empty) containing in the name a version number which would show whether of not mirror is up to date. This -is- a simple check. And it can be the last file rsync'd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
