Fedora extras metadata

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>
>> What is going on with fedora extras metadata lately?
> 
> Nothing. It's just the mirrors that choke on daily updates and don't sync
> safely and frequently enough.
> 
This seems to be happening more often that we could hope for.
Is there a documented way to set up mirroring, to ENSURE that the 
mirrors are in a consistent state?
If not - and I believe this has been brought up earlier (by myself). I 
really think we could do with a simple timestamping mirror handshake 
mechanism, kinda like what debian does. This would allow mirrors to 
monitor for a special file and when that file is available, we know the 
mirror is in a consistent state (as consistent as it's master - which 
can also be tracked in this way). Mirrors could easily add a few lines 
to their scripts to honor this kind of thing, without the need for 
special mirroring tools.

Just a suggestion

/Thomas