[mirror-admin] Mirror comes and goes on the mirrorlist

[Matt Domsch]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:59:25PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> I have noticed that my mirror comes and goes from the public mirrorlist
> (losing my "preferred netblock" entry) seemingly at random.  It just
> dropped off again this afternoon for no apparent reason.  It isn't
> out-of-date, but mirrormanager shows zero up-to-date directories for any
> category except EPEL.
> 
> I re-ran report_mirror and got:
> 
> Category Fedora Web directories updated: 14  added: 0  deleted 12
> Category Fedora Linux directories updated: 374  added: 0  deleted 72
> Category Fedora EPEL directories updated: 78  added: 0  deleted 27
> Category Fedora Extras directories updated: 18  added: 0  deleted 30
> Category Fedora Core directories updated: 69  added: 0  deleted 130
> checked in successful
> 
> This is with no changes in actual data on my local disks.  After that,
> mirrormanager shows all the directories as up-to-date.


report_mirror tells the database you are up-to-date, even if you might
not quite be.  It's expected to be run right after your rsync
completes, which is why I have it do this.

> Is there any way to tell what is going on?
> 
> Even odder: after running report_mirror and seeing all the directories
> show up, including Fedora Linux:updates/7/SRPMS for example, I resynced
> my updates tree, and I'm downloading a bunch of F7 updates (which I
> guess are being pushed now, since I also got a bunch of the standard
> "file has vanished" errors).  So, technically my updates tree was
> slightly out-of-date, yet after a report_mirror run it showed
> up-to-date.

for public mirrors, dropping off the list happens only when the
crawler can't get to you, or if the crawler's idea of what you should
have differs from what you actually have.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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