On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Dusty Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/1/21 Dan McGee <[email protected]>: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Am Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009 03:32:54 schrieb Dan McGee: >>>>> How does this look for a step in the right >>>>> direction? >>>> >>>> Looks good to me. I use a similar approach for the server stats page. Do >>>> you >>>> think it would be possible to store those data in the mirrorlist package >>>> somehow? >>> >>> Can you point me to the page you are talking about? >>> >>> And what do you mean by storing it in the mirrorlist package? The >>> intent here is to make the Django DB the canonical source of >>> information that will be disseminated out to each of the places that >>> need it- the downloads page, a mirrors page, and a way to generate the >>> pacman mirrorlist. >> >> Some mostly-complete work on this stuff is on my branches: >> http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=archweb_dev.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/working >> http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=archweb_pub.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/working > > Hey all, > > Sorry for dropping the ball on this one. I've merged Dan's changes and > am in the process of manually adding mirrors. I have entered all the > details into the admin except the rsync IPs. I would appreciate it if > someone would add those manually at some point. Then somebody can > write scripts to automatically generate the rsync whitelist and pacman > mirrorlist from this data. (Or did you do that already, Dan?)
I can try to do the rsync IPs this weekend, as well as making scripts/etc. that spit out what we need. For the mirrorlist, we can just make this a view on the public site- for the rsync IP list, we might be able to make it a view on the dev site. > In addition, I had to verify each of the mirrors to check if they have > ISOs. In doing that I discovered some of the mirrors in the current > database are broken. Specifically these ones: > > http://mirror.vmmatrix.net/ArchLinux/ (China) > mirrors.jakimowicz.com (France) > ftp://ftp.parrswood.net/Mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/ (UK) > ftp://saule.mintis.lt/pub/linux/ (Lithuania) > > They should be removed from the mirrorlist and rsync whitelist if they > exist there, as I've already removed them from the DB. Noted, and I'll try to remove them from the mirrorlist this weekend. > I suspect there may be mirrors on the wiki page and/or in the pacman > mirror list that are not in the database. It would be nice to get them > all synced up. Agreed. That was the point of this whole exercise. > Finally, there are a bunch of unofficial mirrors listed here: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors#Unofficial_mirrors Is > there a reason we shouldn't make some/all of these official?? Some of > them may have been done already. I think our only definition of "official" is "do they sync from gerolde?". Not sure if that answers the question, but yeah. -Dan
