[mirror-admin] report_mirror: ProtocolError undefined

[Adrian Reber]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:54:14PM +0200, Rafal Maszkowski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 07:35:18AM +0100, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> >   using report_mirror I get this message sometimes. Looks like ProtocolError
> > is not defined anywhere. May be it should be xmlrpclib.ProtocolError.
> 
> Yes, I have found a one-line patch adding just this. Probably newer
> versions have it fixed but there is only very old 1.3.7 version in EPEL.
> I am not sure if I should install a newer one from source or 1.3.7 with
> the above correction is good enough.

The patch has made it into the source code of report_mirror. The
MirrorManager packages in EPEL are far behind from what is happening
upstream. I would just take the report_mirror directly from git. It is a
single python script with minimal dependencies.

> I have a question concerning the mirroring system. What is the meaning
> of the one before last column in
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/mirrors
> mirrors list? The values are either "Yes" or "No" but I cannot guess
> what do they mean.

Looking at the source code this is if the mirror is on "Internet2" or
not. I opened up a ticket to get this better documented:

https://github.com/fedora-infra/mirrormanager2/issues/133

		Adrian
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