[mir-coders] rsync replacement

[john duda]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:53:55AM -0700, lotu5 at resist.ca wrote:
> um, sorry but, why not use rsync?

i can't speak for the people developing this tool but a couple of
advantages spring to mind:

1) rsync is slow on multi-mir boxes, this will make it possible to
just transfer exactly what needs to be transfered without having to
hit the disk more than is necessary

2) this can be set up in a totally unprivileged way(much like having
anonymous rysnc!) 

-john

> 
> > Now I'm (finally) getting around to writing the script to run on the
> > mirrors, there appear to be some changes to the format that would make
> > sense so we can use Perl's functions.  (I'm learning Perl at the same
> > time ...)
> >
> > The change is to the date/time in the file
> >
> >> MIR
> >>
> >> Mir will simply publish a list of file changes.  It will produce one
> >> file per day.  The file will be publicly viewable on the web at
> >>
> >> /changes/changesYYYYMMDD.txt
> >>
> >> So on May 28th, 2006, the file name would be
> >>
> >> /changes/changes20060528.txt
> >>
> >> The format of the file will also be simple.  There will be three
> >> columns.  First will be the time, then (add/change/delete) depending
> >> whether the file is new, has been updated or deleted, and then the full
> >> relative path of the file.  So an example line would be
> >>
> >> 15:34:06   add   /en/2006/05/341547.html
> >
> > 2006:01:24T09:08:17.1234   add   /en/2006/05/341547.html
> >
> > is now the proposed format, so I can use the parsing from
> >
> > http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/TimeDate-1.16/lib/Date/Parse.pm
> >
> > mish
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