[mirror-admin] weird mirror list

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:32:11PM -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> There seems to be a problem with the rawhide list though. It shows few
> entries and misses mirrors that are fine and up-to-date, such as ours
> (fedora.c3sl.ufpr.br).

I'll start watching the mirror list for rawhide more closely, I hadn't
noticed this.

For your host in particular, I'm seeing that the daily rawhide push
happens, then the crawler comes by your site between 15:00UTC and
17:00UTC, and notes that you aren't up-to-date on those dirs (haven't
completed sync yet perhaps), so marks you as not up-to-date on the
development/ dirs.  2 hours later, the crawler comes by again, by
which point you've synced again, and so the crawler marks those dirs
as up-to-date again.

I believe this is working as expected.

> Is it because updates have stopped and all mirrors are "old"?

No.  Even if all updates stop, MM will keep metadata on the last 1
week worth of updates, minimum of the last update.  This way, even if
no new content is pushed to a dir for over a week (such as the
Everything tree), the most recent push's metadata is retained and
used.

Thanks,
Matt

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