> > >   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.

In this example, how would you determine the webserver that is the
primary?

-j

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