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Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:44:07AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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>> When collecting information on the SYNC variable for my Summer of Code |
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>> gentoo stats project I'd like to check if the URL in SYNC is publically |
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>> known or some private/secret rsync mirror. The page behind |
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>> http://mirrorstats.gentoo.org/rsync/ |
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> Mirrorstats is known to be out of date, because somebody needs to sit |
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> down and integrate it with the datasources, so manual updates aren't |
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> needed. Even better, would be hooking it into bouncer2 for the sentry |
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> output. |
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What are these datasources? |
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What kind of integration are you thinking of? |
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> It needs somebody to update it and hook at into the SOURCE of this data: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors3.xml |
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> But wait, you say, that page is distfiles mirrors? Mirror-admin have a |
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> common data source, non-published as it contains private contact details |
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> for each administrator. From that data source, mirrors3 and rsync |
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> mirrors gets updated. |
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I see. |
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> mirrors.xml - old page, only used by mirrorselect now, manually updated. |
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> mirrors3.xml - new page, generated from internal dataset. |
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> mirrors2.xml - not a real page (See |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml?passthru=1 and the magic |
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> <mirrorlist> element. |
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Compared to |
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[..]/mirrors.xml?passthru=1 |
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it seems to me that on mirror3 |
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[..]/mirrors3.xml?passthru=1 |
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passthru= is working in the opposite direction: |
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1 turns style sheets on |
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0 turns them off (default) |
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The one for mirrors3 makes less sense to me. |
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Is this inconsistency intended? |
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> Relatedly, the original author of mirrorselect retired from Gentoo |
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> several years ago. The tools-portage team maintain it now, so you should |
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> co-operate with them. It would be nice if they implemented the mirrors3 |
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> usage too, I think mirror-admin asked them more than a year ago, but I |
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> can't find the bug. |
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I agree that would be a good idea and another reason to touch |
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mirrorselect. Does it have a source repo somewhere?, not seen any. |
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> In the meantime, for your original question: |
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>> is the URL in SYNC public or private |
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> Simply check by matching against gentoo.org$ in the hostname part of the |
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> field. |
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Good idea, now implemented: |
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http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=smolt-gentoo.git;a=commitdiff;h=aeb14433e7c29a6045fb702775a3455ebb61aa1d |
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> P.S. Please report empty SYNC variables too ;-). These turn up when |
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> users/devs have their tree coming from a VCS instead of rsync. |
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Good point. Now also implemented, same commit as above. |
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Sebastian |
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