Keeping the Devel Mirrors Up-to-Date

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Ian Burrell wrote:
> 
> It is fairly simple to compare the timestamps in the repomd.xml files.
> If the timestamps are older than the master, then the mirror is
> out-of-date.  This doesn't help with mirrors which are in the middle
> of syncing or had a failure.  Mirrors could use the rsync
> --delay-updates option to make the updates more atomic.
> 

This does not provide the mirroring trace (which I think would be very
nice), it also says nothing about whether or not the rest of the files
have been mirrored or only the repomd.xml file.

/Thomas