[Fwd: INDEX on mirrors]

[Doug Barton]

Have y'all seen this? Followups to this post indicated that this is a
much bigger problem.

Doug


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: INDEX on mirrors
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:00:58 +0100
From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de>
To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org

It seems that ftp.freebsd.org does load balancing and not all
servers are in sync. I have repeatedly downloaded:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7-stable/INDEX
And there seem to be 2 versions around, one from February 27 and
one from March 06.

I have a shell script that connects to the ftp via netcat and
compares the age of the file to a local copy. If the local
copy is outdated a fetch is started.

Nice idea to safe traffic, but useless if you get the same
outdated file, because servers are not in sync.
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