[mirror-admin] ERROR: chroot failed for fedora-web

[Carlos Carvalho]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:10:18 -0800 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
 >fullfilelist is something we're working on that came from a FUDCon
 >brainstorming session.

What's FUDCon?

This is a mirror-only issue, so I think this list is the correct
forum; why hasn't it been discussed here?

These are just questions, it's your distribution and you can do
whatever you see fit with it.

 >fullfilelist is updated each time we put new content in a top level
 >module, giving mirrors something they can quickly reference to see if
 >anything has changed.  This would prevent the full tree walk and
 >timestamp check / comparison that drives load up and takes a long time
 >to complete.  Matt Domsch is likely working on a writeup from our
 >session and I'm still working on the fullfilelist generation scripts.

I'm happy to see it (finally...) being done. However just names are
useless, other info is necessary. You don't need any scripts, just

rsync --exclude /fullfilelist localhost::fedora-enchilada/ > path/fullfilelist

is enough.

In fact, I'm already using file lists to avoid dreadful disk
scavenging here...

If you want to get fancy you should create a list of checksums. It can
be used for the same purpose with the added bonus of allowing mirrors
to check if their repository is correct without having to deal with
rpm, besides making checking much faster than with it. The best format
is the one created by *sum family. This would be a most welcome
improvement to the fedora archive.

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