Fedora Core 2 Update: kernel-2.6.6-1.435

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>Okay ive looked over initially how the check works.
>And correct me if I'm wrong but...all you are doing is checking the header.info
>on the mirror against the server.  This might not add much in terms of
>accuracy since its quite possible that a mirror might get the header
>before the actual package. So this method of generating a mirror-list
>is not going to catch all possible problems.  And in fact you might
>actually cut out mirrors that have the package but not the header yet,
>which means cutting out a mirror that is actually valid for the
>downloading step even though the header hasn't been copied over yet. 
>Maybe it would help if there was a re-statement of the problem you
>were trying to solve to guage how effective this attempt was at trying
>to solve it.
>
>-jef
>  
>

I'm looking at the errors reported for each mirror and looks like the 
idea of using the header.info file is not a good idea at all. First , 
because of the reason you talked about. Second ,  most of the mirrors 
which the script said are not ok have the 2/x86_64/os/Fedora/ directory 
, but they didnt have the header.info file...
At least now we have a script that works. I'll restore the html parsing 
I've implemented and use it instead of the header.info.  And I'll have a 
check on the man pages for wget . I need to find out which exit codes it 
uses for errors like file not found , connection timed out , etc , so I 
can improve the error detection in the script.

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Pedro Macedo