[mirror-admin] fullfilelist (was Re: Please use --delay-updates)

[Carlos Carvalho]

Matt Domsch (matt at domsch.com) wrote on 20 April 2010 13:56:
 >On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:26:53PM +0200, Angel Marin wrote:
 >> On 20/04/10 17:45, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
 >> > Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at redhat.com) wrote on 20 April 2010 09:48:
 >> >  >On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
 >> > The format I propose is the one generated by rsync itself:
 >> > 
 >> > % cd /path/to/repository
 >> > % rsync -r . > /path/to/fullfilelist
 >> 
 >> Wouldn't make sense to generate that list forcing the timezone on that
 >> rsync run to for example utc?
 >> 
 >> Otherwise the reported date would be dependent on a particular server
 >> configuration that might change in the future, messing parsers ...
 >
 >As it happens, Fedora's infrastructure runs all servers in TZ=UTC
 >mode, so that would naturally occur, but yes, that's worth making
 >explicit.

No, rsync prints the time in the client local zone. The server's has
no influence in the listing.

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