CVSup Mirror Statistics Timestamp Problem

[John Marshall]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, 09:29 +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> In the thread about Subversion mirrors, 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, 23:41 +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
> > If people are wondering why we are working on how to do mirroring
> > differently, please see current status:
> > http://www.mavetju.org/unix/freebsd-mirrors/ (cvsup is stat seems
> > broken, but FTP still shows the general picture).
> 
> Simon refers to the very useful mirror monitoring site created and
> maintained by edwin at .  I also maintain my own monitor for a much smaller
> subset of mirrors in which I have particular interest.
> 
> Most of the mirror age information relies on some kind of regularly
> updated TIMESTAMP from the master which is replicated to each of the
> mirrors.  That's easy with the FTP mirrors because ftp-master provides
> /pub/FreeBSD/TIMESTAMP.  The nearest thing we had been able to find for
> CVSup mirrors was the timestamp in the $FreeBSD$ tag in
> CVSROOT-ports/modules, since a fresh version of that file was being
> generated most days.  Since ports has moved to Subversion, the modules
> file has not been updated and I haven't been able to find a substitute
> "TIMESTAMP" that we can use to check the age of CVSup mirrors.  I note
> that this wouldn't be a problem if it were possible to get at CVS
> history from a CVSup client.
> 
> Any suggestions?

A few weeks ago I found an answer.  It looks like the svn-->cvs exporter
is now adding the file src/LASTCOMMIT.txt which contains the svn commit
timestamp and log message from the most recent commit.  I am using the
timestamp in that svn commit message as the timestamp for determining
the age of CVSup mirrors.  "It works for me".

  http://www.riverwillow.net.au/~john/mirmon/cvsup.html

-- 
John Marshall
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