Re: Mirrors not tracking main ftp site?

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> On hub, in /home/projects/pgsql/ftp/pub/dev I see
>
> *.tar.gz.md5 postgresql-opt-snapshot.tar.gz
> doc postgresql-opt-snapshot.tar.gz.md5
> postgresql-base-snapshot.tar.gz postgresql-snapshot.tar.gz
> postgresql-base-snapshot.tar.gz.md5 postgresql-snapshot.tar.gz.md5
> postgresql-docs-snapshot.tar.gz postgresql-test-snapshot.tar.gz
> postgresql-docs-snapshot.tar.gz.md5 postgresql-test-snapshot.tar.gz.md5
>
> which agrees with the view at http://www.ca.postgresql.org/ftpsite/dev/.
>
> However, it seems that the mirrors have a lot more stuff:
> ftp://postgresql.readysetnet.com/pub/postgresql/dev/ shows dozens
> of files back to 7.1beta6, and so do the other several I checked in
> a random sample. Is the update mechanism failing to cause old files
> to be removed from the mirrors?

Here's the syntax we tell them to use:

rsync -avz --delete hub.org::[remote]/ [destination directory]

If that's not what they're using I can't go into their cronjobs and
fix it.

>
> Also, some of the mirrors claimed to be up-to-date by
> http://www.postgresql.org/index.html aren't. Fr instance,
> download.sourceforge.net doesn't have 7.1.1 nor 7.1.2.
> I thought that the up-to-date check was automated?

It is and here's the directory from sourceforge:

227 Entering Passive Mode (64,28,67,101,18,128).
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8117016 May 24 16:37 postgresql-7.1.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 May 24 16:38 postgresql-7.1.2.tar.gz.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3240364 May 24 16:38 postgresql-base-7.1.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 May 24 16:38 postgresql-base-7.1.2.tar.gz.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2072096 May 24 16:38 postgresql-docs-7.1.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 May 24 16:38 postgresql-docs-7.1.2.tar.gz.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1803742 May 24 16:38 postgresql-opt-7.1.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69 May 24 16:38 postgresql-opt-7.1.2.tar.gz.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1002166 May 24 16:38 postgresql-test-7.1.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 May 24 16:38 postgresql-test-7.1.2.tar.gz.md5
226-Transfer complete.
226 Quotas off

What is it you find missing about 7.1.2? What were you actually looking
at?

Vince.
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