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

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:58:10PM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> As I understand it, fullfilelist contains (or will contain) a list of
> updated files for a given push of updates.  If an update is pushed by
> Fedora at 12:00pm for sudo and then another update for kernel is pushed
> at 4:00pm, I believe the latest fullfilelist would only contain the
> kernel RPM.  If I missed pulling the updates between 12 and 4, I would
> only pull the kernel and would not know I missed the sudo update.  The
> only way I could get the sudo update is a normal rsync.
> 
> Maybe I'm worrying about something that is not the case.  Please clue me
> in if I'm missing something.

I think the intention is for the list to contain all of the files with
times. You'd pull all files with times newer than your last run.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

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