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

[Jan Kasprzak]

ftp at secsup.org wrote:
: 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?

	I think the RSS as the transport channel for this info would be nice
to have (and a sample script for downloading and parsing this, of course).

	What I usually do, is to read the release date from the
mirror-list message, and then set up an at(1) job (usually 3 minutes
before the bit flip time) to do

chmod -R a+rX $FEDORA_ROOT/linux/releases/$RELEASE

(note the a+rX, 0755 is probably not always what you want).

	Of course should the release be cancelled for some reason,
I may miss the information and publish it anyway. But then, releases
are usually in a quite sane time in my time zone (4 pm CET).

-Yenya

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