On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Robin H. Johnson<robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:44:07AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> When collecting information on the SYNC variable for my Summer of Code >> gentoo stats project I'd like to check if the URL in SYNC is publically >> known or some private/secret rsync mirror. The page behind >> http://mirrorstats.gentoo.org/rsync/ > Mirrorstats is known to be out of date, because somebody needs to sit > down and integrate it with the datasources, so manual updates aren't > needed. Even better, would be hooking it into bouncer2 for the sentry > output. > > It needs somebody to update it and hook at into the SOURCE of this data: > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors3.xml > > But wait, you say, that page is distfiles mirrors? Mirror-admin have a > common data source, non-published as it contains private contact details > for each administrator. From that data source, mirrors3 and rsync > mirrors gets updated. > > mirrors.xml - old page, only used by mirrorselect now, manually updated. > mirrors3.xml - new page, generated from internal dataset. > mirrors2.xml - not a real page (See > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml?passthru=1 and the magic > <mirrorlist> element. > > Relatedly, the original author of mirrorselect retired from Gentoo > several years ago. The tools-portage team maintain it now, so you should > co-operate with them. It would be nice if they implemented the mirrors3 > usage too, I think mirror-admin asked them more than a year ago, but I > can't find the bug.
+cc tools-portage shit, I think I was the last one to touch that thing ;p Where is mirrorselect hiding these days, a private git repo? -A > > In the meantime, for your original question: >> is the URL in SYNC public or private > Simply check by matching against gentoo.org$ in the hostname part of the > field. > > P.S. Please report empty SYNC variables too ;-). These turn up when > users/devs have their tree coming from a VCS instead of rsync. > > -- > Robin Hugh Johnson > Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy > E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org > GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 >
