Hi Neil
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 01:30:54PM +0000, Bright, Neil wrote:
> With regards to naming -
> Our collections, of which Debian is one of many, are available via http, ftp
> and rsync. The {http,ftp,rsync}.gtlib.gatech.edu names are DNS round robins
> that point to multiple machines, all offering the three protocols. How do
> you want to handle this?
We can just change the name we list.
> I can conspire to populate the trace file with whatever data you want, but
> moving to the Debian ftpsync script is going to be trouble. We have an
> in-house script of similar purpose that has been generalized across nearly
> 100 upstream sources. What should that trace file look like?
I don't see what the problem is with a if-else check that runs ftpsync
for this one upstream. You already need pretty special settings anyway,
which most likely do not work with others.
Anyway, we may choose to just delist a mirror in this state, as we don't
know it's state.
Bastian
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