Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] randy kobes passed away -> ftpmirror redirector

[Michael J. Flickinger]

Looks like I was wrong about Apache2::Geo::Mirror not updating... it 
does appear to update when the file is changed (or at least appears to 
do so)

In any case, /usr/local/share/GeoIP/gnu-ftpmirror.txt is now properly 
generated via a cronjob every hour (by a script 
in~/bin/gnu-mirror-geoip-sync.pl).

If you approve of the setup, you can email sysadmin and have them change 
the dns for ftpmirror.gnu.org


On 03/01/2011 09:23 PM, Michael J. Flickinger wrote:
> A cronjon now exists on the download vm for keeping an up-to-date list:
> /root/bin/gnu-mirror-geoip-sync.pl
>
> I still need to implement a file-refreshing feature for the 
> Apache2::Geo::Mirror module.
>
> Karl Berry wrote:
> >     One problem here is that the Apache2::Geo::Mirror module only loads
> >     the mirror list upon initialization of Apache,
> > Wow.  That would explain a lot of things where users keep reporting
> > outdated mirrors no longer in the list, etc.
> >
> >     I think the most sane thing to do here is subclass 
> > Apache2::Geo::Mirror
> >     and add a simple feature that checks the last modified time of 
> > the     /usr/local/share/GeoIP/gnu-ftpmirror.txt file; if it changes, 
> > reload the
> > We'd want to do the same thing for the existing non-gnu redirector too,
> > of course.  Ideally even pass that fix back upstream, if there still is
> > an upstream ...
> >
> > Thanks for all,
> > k