On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 11:41:13AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Exactly at what time is www.debian.org updated from the cvs repository? > Sometimes it seems as if it takes >48 hours for pages to get updated. Is > there a mismatch between when the CVS repository is updated and when the > HTML files are actually rebuilt? > The copy of the cvs repository on the master site is update daily right after the daily dinstall run(*). A global make is then run and the pages are then push mirrored. This allows the information on the web and ftp archive to be synced on the mirrors within about 2 hours (we used to have awful synchronization problems).
Having the web update tied to the archive update means that mirroring does not occur at a fixed time every day. The mirror to www.debian.org tends to be done around 2130 UTC. Unless a connection problem causes a mirror run to be missed, pages should be updated within 24 hours. For mirrors that are using the latest version of the rsync mirror scripts you can check the time of the last update by looking in mirror/timestamps/<host>, e.g. http://www.debian.org/mirror/timestamps/va.debian.org Since you may not know the real name of the host, just look at the dir listing from mirror/timestamps/ . I have heard that va has been having connection problems lately. The timestamp should only be updated after a mirror run finishes successfully (the script uses set -e) so a recent timestamp should be valid. Jay Treacy (*)dinstall is the program that updates the archive - installing new packages and generating Packages files.
