[Support-mirrors] Gem mirror

[Dennis Oelkers]

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Am 01.11.2005 um 16:24 schrieb Chad Fowler:
> Oh cool, that reminds me.  I'm running every 15 minutes at 1,15,30,  
> 45 (can you do 0 with cron?  I'm never sure.) :)

You can :)

>
> We should probably establish a minimum interval.  The problem with  
> even 15 minutes is that we might end up with 404s on attempted gem  
> installs.  Any ideas on how to deal with that?
>

I would be fine with decreasing the interval. On the other hand we  
should think about establishing
some sort of push- instead of pull-mechanism to update the mirrors. I  
do not have a clue how new/updated
gems find their way to gems.rubyforge.org (ftp?), but maybe we should  
automate the process of updating
the mirrors after a new/updated gem has been uploaded. (Maybe via  
rsync too?)

It would not solve the problem of 404s perfectly, but it is as close  
as we can get with a decentralised setup.

Kind regards,
		Dennis Oelkers
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