Am Sunday 12 August 2007 schrieb Gerald Pfeifer:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > I'm not so sure it would be a good idea. We sure know the moment that
> > all of Factory has built and we created a repository out of it. But the
> > rest from internal repository to mirrors is done by periodic rsyncs. So
> > something would need to wrap the rsyncs to parse their output.
>
> Well, that doesn't sound like rocket science, and it would be push
> versus pull (the latter probably on the side of several clients each
> polling in relatively short intervalls thus increasing overall load).
>
> > So I think the better way would be some bot that polls 3 mirrors and
> > sends out a mail if it notices that they a) are in sync and b) changed.
>
> Anyway, I started hacking a small script of my own and ran into the first
> two issues.
>
>  1. Why do we have those bogus updates of MD5SUM files on ftp.suse.org
>     when none of the underlying contents changed?
>
>  2. And why do we have bogus updates of the ChangeLog file in the top
>     level when none of the packages actually changed and no new ChangeLog
>     entry was added?
>
That's what I said: periodic updates.

Greetings, Stephan

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