Presto logging

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:11 PM +0200 3/26/07, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 11:26 AM +0300 3/26/07, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
>>  ...
>>> Also, our test server is syncing updates and extras every six hours.
>>> Does anyone know if there's a way for the fedoraproject servers to push
>>> updates rather than our polling?
>>
>> I don't think so, but you could poll just the repomd.xml metadata file
>> pretty quickly.  If it is updated, then the repo is probably worth syncing
>> with.  You might also check if the filelists.gz is updated as well.
>
>Problem with this is, that unless special care is taken to do it this
>way, we can't rely on the repository metadata to be updated last.
 ...

True, but that's already broken for everybody, so this would be no
different.  Once the metadata updates, either the other files are there or
just about everything doesn't work.

It would be a really good idea to fix this, by splitting up the rsync into
two lines, so that the metadata is done last.  Still, even without that,
once the metadata changes one can assume that a repo update is happening.
Repomd.xml is a nice small file that is always updated.
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