[mirror-admin] ideas for recognizing bitflips / dir changess

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On Sun, 3 May 2009, Matt Domsch wrote:

> Problem: it can take 6+ hours for sufficient mirrors to pick up the
> bitflip on release day.
>
> Possible solutions:

6) publish in a machine parsable format the date/time (timestamp) that the 
next release bit flip is going to happen. have some simple script on the 
mirror site side that turns the simple-file into a cronjob which does the 
requisite chmod 755 commands.

I'm not sure much more machinery is really required, is it?

-Chris

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