On Mon 21 Jul 2008 at 01:40PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
> > * Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-21 05:52]:
> >> * Changed repository to generate a type 4 UUID on startup if the
> >> repository doesn't have a valid UUID already
> >
> > Could you expand on how you see the depot UUID being used in a load
> > balancing situation? (For instance, pkg.opensolaris.org is load
> > balanced across a set of identical depots which use a common catalog,
> > package manifests, and files, but keep separate statistics, and are
> > hosted on multiple systems. With what aspect of a depot's operation
> > is the UUID associated?)
>
> At the moment, it it is to provide a unique identifier for the RSS/Atom
> feed generate by the repository.
>
> All of the pkg.opensolaris.org servers would need to share the same id
> so that the feed generated by any of them would be considered the same
> one by feed readers.
Why not just disable the feed on all but the primary? Since it's
100% cacheable it doesn't seem like a big deal.
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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