Changelog for mirrorbrain-tools-2.18.1-7.1.x86_64.rpm :
Tue May 6 14:00:00 2014 larsAATTlinux-schulserver.de
- python-mb should require python-FormEncode on newer openSUSE
- run spec-cleaner
- add specfile license header
- License follows http://spdx.org/licenses/
- warn user if /home/mirrorbrain already exists

Tue Feb 4 13:00:00 2014 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.18.1 (r8379):

* geoip-lite-update: The tool reloads Apache, but the
systemctl call added in 2.18.0 for operating systems with systemd was
incorrect. This has been fixed and was the reason for this release.

* mod_mirrorbrain: Some obsolete configuration directives
have been removed (MirrorBrainGeoIPFile,
MirrorBrainHandleDirectoryIndexLocally,
MirrorBrainMetalinkHashesPathPrefix). MirrorBrainGeoIPFile was also
still present in the example configuration file.

* mb scan: an obsolete reference to a -f switch was removed that exists only in
the behind-the-scene scanner perl script, but not in mb scan.

* In the documentation about system tuning, a reference to the PostgreSQL
docs has been added.

Fri Jan 31 13:00:00 2014 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.18.0 (r8357):
New features:

* mod_mirrorbrain: improved HTML output for the details pages that
MirrorBrain generates
http://svn.mirrorbrain.org/viewvc/mirrorbrain?view=revision&revision=8334

* mod_mirrorbrain: If multiple instances of MirrorBrain run in Apache, warn
if DBD connect strings are not unique (which confuses Apache). Log a
helpful hint.

* The installation documentation was updated in many places.

* mb: new command line option for configuration file path.

* mb update: The geoiplookup and geoiplookup_city binaries are now also
looked for in /usr/share/mirrorbrain.

* geoip-lite-update: It is now possible to run this script without reloading
Apache. On the other hand, it can now reload Apache on openSUSE, Ubuntu,
Debian, Fedora, and via systemd.

* The create_timestamp script no longer contains openSUSE specifics. Usage:
create_timestamp [username:groupname] timestampfile1 [timestampfile2...]

* geoiplookup_city and geoiplookup_continent tools: The path to the GeoIP
database files is now configurable at compile time.

* mirrorprobe: in the --help output, display the default value for the
network timeout (20 seconds)
Bug fixes:
- properly create the new \"version\" table (and update the broken one from 2.17.0)
- SQL scheme for new installations now contains the missing new column ipv6_only.
- The SQL schema was updated to remove obsolete quotes around language names
on function declarations: \'plpgsql\' -> plpgsql; \'SQL\' -> SQL. PostgreSQL
9.2 and newer no longer ignore these wrong quotes.
- mod_mirrorbrain: Compiler warnings about using %d for size_t were silenced,
by now using APR_SIZE_T_FMT where appropriate.
- mb / mirrorbrain.conf: ignore trailing(!) spaces in passwords
- mb now gives sane error messages for misspelled/missing mirrorbrain.conf statements
- mb: when mod_asn is not installed, an additional ProgrammingError exception
from the sqlobject.dberrors can occur. This is now also caught.
- mb makehashes: “permission denied” errors are now handled gracefully
- mb iplookup: On the Solaris/OpenCSW platform, using socket.getaddrinfo() in
Python for DNS lookups doesn’t work with port 0. Using None instead seems
to be more correct and hopefully work on all platforms.
- mb edit: A mistyped dash in the commands help output was fixed.
- mb update: now handles errors that lead to Null as prefix or Null as AS
number, so the command doesn’t crash anymore under these conditions.
- mb dirs: When using the -d or --missing option, show only enabled mirrors
- tools/geoiplookup_
*: They no longer segfault when opening a GeoIP database fails
- mb scan: bug fixes for logging, and for configured broken FTP URLs (dir not found)
- removed obsolete files mirrordoctor.py and metalink-hasher.py
- The file mb/countries.py was never used; removed now.
- The build on openSUSE 13.1 was fixed.
- The build on RHEL6 was fixed.

Tue Jan 7 13:00:00 2014 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- Adjust spec file so it can be built on RHEL, with patch courtesy of jcpunk.
http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/issue125

Sat Apr 21 14:00:00 2012 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.17.0 (r8289):
New features:
- IPv6 geolocation for IPv6 clients is now enabled. Requires GeoIP 1.4.8 and
mod_geoip 1.2.7.
- support for RFC 5988 Web Linking
- support for RFC 3230 HTTP Instance Digests (including updates from RFC 5843)
- support for RFC 6249 Metalink/HTTP: Mirrors and Hashes
Bug fixes:
- mb makehashes: fixed problem with filenames containing certain characters
- mb edit: respect VISUAL variable
- mirrorprobe: handle incomplete responses better
- mb vacuum: new option -q|--quiet
Database versioning and migration was implemented.
- Ubuntu 11.10 packages are now built and tested.
- Debian 6.0 packages have been tested.

Sat Mar 31 14:00:00 2012 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- fix build problem on Ubuntu 11.10, where the gcc requires a certain
order of arguments when linking (build of geoiplookup_continent.c failed)

Sun Mar 25 14:00:00 2012 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.16.1 (r8263):
Bug fixes:
- mb makehashes: ignore PGP signature files that were not detached signatures (issue 102).
- mb makehashes: no longer write metalink data / cryptohashes into files.
(Was kept for backward compatibility).
- mod_mirrorbrain: Reworked error handling regarding the acquisition of
database connections, including more detailed logging of errors. This fixes
a crash that affected only setups with MirrorBrainFallback configuration.
The crash could occur when no database connection was available – because the
logging code wrongly tried to log details about the (unavailable) connection.
New features:
- mb mirrorlist: Path names can now contain wildcards.
- tools/push2mirrors, a script to run rsync processes in parallel to push
content to mirrors.

Tue Feb 21 13:00:00 2012 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.16.0 (r8252):
http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-16-0-r8251-feb-21-2012
- URL signing is no longer experimental. See
http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/configuration/#configuring-url-signatures
- mb dirs: new option --missing to list all mirrors without a certain directory
- mod_mirrorbrain: The server could crash if there was configuration for
fallback mirrors in place and acquisition of a database connection failed.
(issue #84)
- mb scan:
- If some directories on a mirror return 404, the scanner crashed. This
is fixed with a patch kindly contributed by Thorsten Behrens.
- logging messages in the large file check have been silenced (and their
formatting improved)
- a compatibility issue with Python has been fixed, by updating the way how
exceptions are raised. Thanks to Christian Lohmaier
- mb makehashes: Handling of non-availability of SHA256 cipher was
fixed for old Python versions (issue #85)
- build problem documented: need to link math library on some newer platforms

Sun Nov 14 13:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.15.0 (r8232):
http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-15-0-r8232-nov-13-2010
- support for generating Yum-style mirror lists
- scanning Nginx directory listings
- bugfixes and improvements in the scanner
- extensive directions on tuning PostgreSQL for MirrorBrain

Fri Nov 12 13:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- enable building on Fedora

Sat Nov 6 13:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.14.0 (r8210):
http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-14-0-r8210-nov-6-2010
- If the “GeoLite City” GeoIP database is used, MirrorBrain now uses
geographical distance as additional criterion to improve mirror selection
in difficult cases (issue #34).
- Per-file mirror lists are more readable and embed a link to a Google map
with mirrors.
- When running behind a load balancer or other reverse proxy, prefix
detection (for containment in network prefixes of mirrors) did not work.
- Experimental support for restricted downloads. See release notes.
- Running behind authentication (e.g. Basic) is now supported.
- zsync 0.6.2 compatibility has been tested.
- Small code optimizations and cleanups.
Upgrade notes: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/upgrading/#to-2-14-0

Tue Oct 19 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.13.4 (r8188):
See http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-13-4-r8188-oct-19-2010
mb scan:
- The output of the scanner has been improved, by introducing a -q|--quiet
option. Used once, only a summary line per scanned mirror will be shown. Used
twice, no output will be produced except errors.
- When a scan via rsync ran into a timeout, the name of the affected mirror was
not reported. The error message was only “rsync timeout”, and while there
normally were other messages giving a hint, output is now improved to include
the mirror identifier.
- When enabling a mirror after successful scanning, the scanner now makes sure
that the mirror is not only marked “enabled” but also marked being “online”.
Mirrors are normally marked online by the mirrorprobe (which is typically run
once per minute), but it is much more logical when a mirror is really
directly available after scanning with --enable.
mb scan & mirrorprobe:
- There was a case of a quirky web server software that ignores requests
without Accept header. The mirrorprobe and the scanner now send an Accept
header with value ‘/‘, because sending this header in general should not
harm.
geoip-lite-update:
- This script now works on Ubuntu. It no longer relies on a command named ftp
being capable of doing HTTP downloads, and prefers curl or wget if available.
- The script is quiet now, producing no output if no error is encountered.
Documentation was extended and enhanced.

Sun Sep 26 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.13.3 (r8166):
See http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-13-3-r8166-sep-26-2010
- The Magnet links embedded in Metalinks could cause the Metalink client
aria2c to wait a long time on P2P connections, and not try the listed
mirrors anymore (issue #73). These links are no longer included at the
moment, unless MirrorBrainMetalinkMagnetLinks On is set in the Apache
configuration.
- Under certain conditions (transparent negotiation of metalinks),
mod_mirrorbrain could deliver a file \'foo\' when \'foo.bar\' was requested but
didnt exist. Found and fixed by Michael Schröder and closing issue #75.
- When generating Torrents, the order of keys was not obeyed, which should be
lexicographical. This is now the case, so the Torrents should be valid also
for clients that insist on correct ordering. This should improve the
compatibility to some clients, notably rtorrent. Tracked in issue 74 and
issue 78.
- The MD5 sum in Torrent info hashes was wrongly sent in binary form, instead
of being hex-encoded. In addition, the key was wrongly named md5 while
md5sum is the correct name. Fixing issue 77.
- Not a bugfix, but a hopefully useful addition is that Torrents now contain
a “created by” key, indicating the generator of the torrent, and the
version number (e.g. MirrorBrain/2.13.3). Suggested in issue 65.
- nomagnets.patch added recently is obsolete now and has been removed.

Thu Sep 23 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- add nomagnets.patch to disable magnet links in Metalinks, which cause aria2c
to hang when downloading RPM packages. The magnet links have the same
priority as the highest mirror, but aria2c doesn\'t use the mirrors in that
case. (issue #73)

Sun Sep 19 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.13.2 (r8153):
See http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-13-1-r8136-sep-18-2010
mod_mirrorbrain:
- The content of the mirror lists (details pages) are now wrapped into a
XHTML/HTML DIV container with id=\"mirrorbrain-details\". This improves the
possibilities for styling in conjunction with a stylesheet linked in via
the MirrorBrainMirrorlistStyleSheet directive (issue #63).
- Further individual design can now be achieved by specifying the XHTML/HTML
header and footer which are placed around the page body instead of the
built-in XHTML (issue #63). This is configured with two new Apache
configuration directives.
- Hashes can now be requested without a filename being included in the
response, to simplify parsing (issue #68). This is done by sending the
query string only_hash. This works with different ways to request a hash:
http://host.example.com/foo.md5?only_hash
http://host.example.com/foo?md5&only_hash
- The filename in hashes can also be suppressed site-wide (and therewith, on
the server side) with a new Apache config directive
MirrorBrainHashesSuppressFilenames On. It goes into virtualhost context.
- When sending out a hash to a client (as requested by appending e.g. .md5),
there is now a double space between hash and filename – just like as the
familiar tools like md5sum and sha1sum do it. This should avoid confusion
and extra effort in parsing.
- The mirror list’s content type header now comes with UTF-8 as character set,
instead of ISO-8859-1, which should make more sense.
mb export –format=mirmon:
- update format (and documentation) for the current mirmon-2.3. (issue #62)

Sat Sep 18 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.13.1 (r8136)
mb edit:
- Fix a regression in 2.13.0, which made it impossible to remove an URL by
setting it to an empty string. r8044 (fix for issue #30) was the culprit.
mb scan:
- Scanning lighttpd web servers is now supported. Thanks to patch contributed
by Phillip Smith. This fixes issue #60.
mb list/edit/show/...:
- In some situations, the fuzzy-matching on mirror identifiers made it impossible
to select certain mirrors. Phillip Smith not only reported this issue but
submitted a clever patch at the same time, which keeps the convenient behaviour
but also allows for selection mirrors by their full name. Fixing issue #61.

Wed Sep 8 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- expanding on the Ubuntu fix for issue 6. See comment
http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/msg236

Tue Sep 7 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- Try to fix the little breakage that occured after moving /usr/bin/mb from
mirrorbrain-tools to python-mb on Debian/Ubuntu:
- mirrorbrain-tools:
Depends:python-mb (>=2.13.0)
- python-mb:
Breaks: mirrorbrain-tools (<<2.13.0)
Replaces: mirrorbrain-tools (<<2.13.0)
- The move of /usr/bin/mb from mirrorbrain-tools to python-mb wasn\'t done in
the RPMs yet

Tue Sep 7 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- Debian/Ubuntu packaging (issue #4):
- user and group are now created automatically on installation
- /var/log/mirrorbrain is included in the package now

Mon Sep 6 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to (probably final) r8123
- rsyncinfo.py renamed to rsyncinfo
- install the bdecode tool

Mon Sep 6 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to r8115
- The module now works also when the path in the contains
symlinks, fixing issue #17
- Further documentation updates

Sun Sep 5 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to r8112
- documentation updates
- remove the compile time check for the APR/APR-Util version and make it a
runtime check. This means that the correct database access semantics are used
even when mod_mirrorbrain is used with a different library version than it was
compiled with. Improving the fix for issue #7. N.B. A similar compile time
check to pick an appropriate format string in the SQL query is still there.

Thu Sep 2 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- fix postinstall script on all platforms to really run the database migration.
mb --version wasn\'t enough; it doesn\'t connect to the database.
- make the postinstall script a little bit more verbose

Thu Sep 2 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- bug fixes for Debian Lenny / old APR (1.2)

Thu Sep 2 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- remove /var/run/mirrorbrain from the package, as /var/run might be created as
tmpfs during boot. It wasn\'t used anyway, yet. Fixing build on oS 11.3.

Wed Sep 1 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.13.0.
(Release notes http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/ w.i.p.)
- remove requirement on the metalink package. Hashing is now done with
Python/OpenSSL.
- drop obsolete patches mirrorbrain-2.12.0-issue52.patch and
mirrorbrain.diff (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602434)

Mon Aug 30 14:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- add patch mirrorbrain-2.12.0-issue52.patch for
http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/issue52 (the match for client prefix/mirror
prefix should check for containment, not string match)

Wed May 5 14:00:00 2010 mlsAATTsuse.de
- work around mirrorbrain bug that caused metalink files with no mirrors

Sun Feb 21 13:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- on Debian & Ubuntu, let the mirrorbrain-scanner package depend on the
libtimedate-perl package. Thanks Christophe Vandeplas from fosdem.org for
this fix.

Wed Feb 10 13:00:00 2010 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.12.0 (r7957)
This release contains several important bug fixes, a new feature, and
documentation fixes.
Details: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-12-0-r7957-feb-10-2010
- store geographical coordinates in the mirror database records
- fix wrong hash filenames constructed by mod_mirrorbrain on Debian (issue 35)
- fix wrong URL type within Metalinks for FTP URLs (issue 23)
- fix wrong URLs printed by \'mb file ls -u\' (issue 36)
- removed code for backwards compatibility for obsolete hash cache filename schemes (pre-2.10)
- try harder to catch rsync timeouts (also during connect time) (issue 12)
- fix FTP auth scanning
- fix mb db shell
- documentation enhancements

Fri Dec 18 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- the metalink package can\'t be compiled on CentOS5, because of missing
glib2-mm. Thus, don\'t require it on that platform so it doesn\'t prevent
installation.

Wed Dec 16 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- fix compile failure on openSUSE 11.2, where the gcc arguments order matters,
due to well-hidden SUSE_ASNEEDED=1 in the environment

Wed Dec 16 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.11.3 (r7933):

* null-rsync:
- IO errors returned by rsync are handled now
- remote errors from rsync are ignored now

* mb db sizes:
- show sizes of tables from mod_stats

* mb db shell:
- fix resuming after command suspension

* mb list:
- new options -H, -F, -R to display HTTP/FTP/rsync base URLs

* mb mirrorlist:
- try harder to not leave temp files
- add a link to our project in the footer
Documentation changes:
- MirrorBrainFallback now documented in the example mod_mirrorbrain.conf
- -t 20 option removed from the mirrorprobe call, since it\'s the default now
- hint about ulimits has been removed, which turned out to be a band-aid
for a purely local problem.
- hint about loading a database dump with mb db shell added
Details: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-11-3-r7933-dec-16-2009

Sat Dec 5 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.11.2 (r7917):

* mb scan:
- Improvements in scanning over FTP (missed mirrors in subdirectory scans;
files with whitespace)

* mb db (new command for database maintenance tasks):
- mb db sizes - shows sizes of all relations
- mb db shell - conveniently open a shell for the database
- mb db vacuum - cleans up dead references (previously:
The previous command, \"mb vacuum\", continues to work for the reason of
backwards compatibility.

* mirrorprobe:
- default timeout lowered from 60s to 20s
Details: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-11-2-r7917-dec-5-2009

Thu Dec 3 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.11.1 (r7899):

* mod_mirrorbrain:
- the compile time detection for APR < 1.3 was fixed. This affected Debian
and Ubuntu. Fixing issue #29.

Wed Dec 2 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.11.0 (r7896):

* mod_mirrorbrain:
- New feature: configure fallback mirrors via MirrorBrainFallback (see
release notes: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-11-0-r7891-dec-2-2009
- use correct APR DBD API version semantics for row retrieval (issue #7)
- the obsolete MirrorBrainHandleDirectoryIndexLocally directive has been removed
(a warning issued where it is still found in the config)
- The default of MirrorBrainHandleHEADRequestLocally has been changed to \"off\".
This means in most cases, that the directive can be removed.

* The documentation for installation on Debian Lenny was tested and corrected
where needed. Credits to TheUni!

* mb:
- Parse errors in the configuration file are not caught and and reported
nicely.
- Special characters occurring in the configured password are escaped
before passing them to SQLObject/psycopg2, thus fixing issue #27. A
remaining issue is that double quotes can\'t be used... a warning is
issued if it\'s attempted.

* mb scan:
- A warning that appeared since the last release has been removed. It was
caused by the removal of obsolete code, and purely cosmetic.

* null-rsync:
- An --exclude commandline option has been implemented, to be passed
through to rsync.
- Control over the program output can now be exerted by the two new options
- -quiet and --verbose.
- Usage info is implemented (--help etc.).
- Interruptions by Ctrl-C and similar signals are intercepted now.

* metalink-hasher
- When comparing the modification time of a saved metalink hash with that
of a source file, the sub(sub-)second portion of the value could be
different from the value that has just been set by os.ulimit(). (Quite
surprisingly.) So now, we compare only the int() portion of the value.
This fixed issue #24.

Tue Dec 1 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- Debian/Ubuntu: add postinstall/postrm script that load/unloads
mod_mirrorbrain

Fri Nov 27 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.10.3 (r7871):

* null-rsync:
- new script: special rsync wrapper which creates a local file tree from a
mirror, where all files contain only zeroes instead of real data. All
files are sparse, modification times and sizes are fully copied,
so that even (native) rsync thinks that the file tree is identical.

* mb new:
- when creating a new mirror, and detecting that the hostname resolved to
multiple addresses (round-robin DNS), a warning about this fact was issued.
Now, (short of documentaion in the manual) a reference to
http://mirrorbrain.org/archive/mirrorbrain/0042.html is added, where the
issue has been discussed in depth.
- A proper error message is now shown if an identifier is chosen that already
exists.

* mb mirrorlist / mb marker:
- The order in which mirrorlist columns are presented is now kept unchanged,
so it appears as it was entered into the database.
- The sort order of mirrorlist entries has been improved. Instead of the
priority, the mirror operator name is now given precendence in order, which
results in a mirror list that actually
*looks
* sorted.

Wed Nov 4 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- update to 2.10.2 (r7853):
Bug fixes:

* When scanning a subdirectory, the mirror scanner (mb scan) could
accidentally delete files from the database outside of that directory. This
was caused by lack of terminatation (with a slash) of the path expression
that is used to grab the list of known files before the scan. Herewith
fixing issue #19.

* The mirrorprobe could crash when the sender domain of a configured mail log
handler wasn’t resolvable (issue #9). This has been fixed.

* A misleading error message in the mb tool was improved, which was issued
when encountering config file with missing sections.
The documentation was updated in various places. Debian/Ubuntu installation
instructions were added.

Wed Sep 30 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- split off a python-mb package, so the package layout is simimar
to the Debian/Ubuntu package

Tue Sep 29 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- split off a apache2-mod_autoindex_mb package, so the package
layout is similar to the Debian/Ubuntu package

Tue Sep 29 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- debianize the package (there are things missing: example config
files are not packaged, and user/group isn\'t created yet;
dependencies are untested)
- removed obsolete patch
mirrorbrain-2.10.0-metalink-hasher-suppress-ignore-message.patch
- improve package descriptions

Wed Sep 9 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to 2.10.1 (r7798):

* mod_mirrorbrain:
- implement another scheme for cached hash files, looking for filenames with
their size appended.
- for the new scheme, require that the mtime must match, and not only be newer.

* metalink-hasher:
- \"copy\" the modification time to the hash file, in preparation to make Apache
check if it\'s identical (until now, it checked only if it\'s newer)
- revert the recent change looking at the inode to judge whether files have
changed, and instead use the file size (in combination with the mtime, just
as rsync does). Migrate existing hashes, so that the files don\'t need to be
hashed again (which could be very time-consuming).
- ignore if a file that is supposed to be unlinked doesn\'t exist, which occurs
for instance in the above mentioned scenario, where the hash files are
renamed to a different name.
- implement per-directory locking. Directories where already a job is running
will be skipped. This allows for hassle-free parallel runs of more than one
jobs. Note that simultaneous spawning of the script still needs to be
controlled, because the I/O bandwidth consumed could become more than good
for a machine.
- catch keyboard Ctrl-C and common interrupting signals

Mon Sep 7 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add fix from r7792, which makes the metalink-hasher suppress the
messages about ignored files - restoring the previous behaviour.

Fri Sep 4 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to 2.10.0 (r7789):

* metalink-hasher:
- the metalink hash cache was re-implemented. In addition to the
modification time, the file inode number is now used as criterion to
invalidate cached metalink hashes. (See https://bugzilla.novell.com/536495)
- a proper error message is now reported when the directory given
on the commandline (for which to create metalinks for) does
not exist
- a little bug (wrongly used variable) for another error message
was fixed

* mod_mirrorbrain:
- the new inode-wise metalink hashes is used, but the previous
scheme is used as fallback, so that the transition should be
seamless.
- bump version to 2.10.0.

* mb new:
- when adding new mirrors, the hostname part in the HTTP base URL might contain
a port number. This is now recognized correctly, so the DNS lookup, GeoIP
lookup and ASN lookup for the hostname string can work.
- commandline options --region-only, --country-only, --as-only,
- -prefix-only were added, which set the respective flags
- commandline options --operator-name and --operator-url were added
- depreciate the --score option, and rename it to --prio

* mirrorprobe:
- the mirrorprobe no longer logs to the console (stderr); this
allows for running the script without redirection its output to
/dev/null, which could mean swallowing important errors in the
end.
- a scenario was documented where the mirrorprobe could fail on
machines with little memories and many mirrors to check. The
fix is to properly set ulimit to allow a large enough stack
size.
- error handling was cleaned up
- more errors are handled (e.g. socket timeouts during response
reading) and logged properly
- for exceptions yet unhandled, info about the mirror that caused
them is printed

* mb scan:
- passing of arguments to the scanner script was fixed in the case where the -j
(--jobs) option was used together with mirror identifier specified on the
commandline.

* mb list:
- command line options to display the boolean flags --region-only,
- -country-only, --as-only and --prefix-only were added

* mb scan/mb file ls --probe:
- the lookup whether the \"multiprocessing\" or \"processing\" module
exist was fixed: it could print a false warning that none of
them was installed.

Fri Aug 21 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r7771, nearing 2.9.2 release

* mb export:
- can now generate a mirmon mirror list. Thus, it is easy to
deploy mirmon, automatically scanning the mirrors that are in
the database.
- add a sanity check: when exporting into a subversion working
directory, make sure that a directory named \'.svn\' exists,
preventing accidental deletion of files.

* scanner:
- ignore rsync temp directories (.~tmp~) also when they occur
at the top level of the tree.

* documentation updates

* removed some obsolete text files, which only pointed to the
documentation in docs/
*, but cluttered the top-level directory:
BUGS, INSTALL, NEWS, THANKS

Wed Aug 12 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to 2.9.2 (r7756):

* large documentation updates

* mod_autoindex_mb:
- implement \"Mirrors\" and \"Metalink\" links for configurations with Apache\'s
IndexOptions HTMLTable configured.
- add missing slash to terminate XHTML br element in the
footer.
- find and report a small bug in mod_autoindex upstream. Locally fixed.
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47682

Thu Jul 30 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to 2.9.1 (r7725):

* mb new:
- Now an understandable error message is printed when the
geoiplookup_continent couldn’t be executed. Thanks to Daniel
Dawidow for providing helpful information to track this down.

* mod_mirrorbrain:
- Under unusual circumstances it may happen that
mod_mirrorbrain can’t retrieve a prepared SQL statement. This
occurs when an identical database connection string is being
used in different virtual hosts. To ease tracking down this
special case, the module now logs additional information that
could be useful for debugging. Also, it logs a hint noting
that connection strings defined with DBDParams must be
unique, and identical strings cannot be used in two virtual
hosts.

* The mod_mirrorbrain example configuration files were updated to
reflect several recent (or not so recent) changes.

Tue Jul 28 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to 2.9.0 release (r7715). The main change which wasn\'t in
this package is:

* A very hindering restriction in the mb tool which made it
require mod_asn to be installed alongside MirrorBrain has been
removed. MirrorBrain can now be installed without installing
mod_asn.
See http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-9-0-jul-28-2009
for the complete 2.9.0 changelog.
- install the new docs subdirectory
- don\'t install THANKS and NEWS any longer, whose content is to be
found on the web page / in the docs directory meanwhile

Mon Jul 27 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add perl-TimeDate to the Requires of the mirrorbrain-scanner
subpackage (for Date::Parse). The package seems to be drawn in
with Apparmor, which is on most openSUSE systems, but let\'s
better be explicit.

Fri Jul 17 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r7702:

* geoiplookup_city and geoiplookup_continent tools:
- open database file in /var/lib/GeoIP/, which is the FHS
correct location and the place where the database was moved
recently on openSUSE

* mb list:
- add --other-countries option to allow displaying the
countries that a mirror is configured to handle in addition
to its own country

* documentation updates

Mon Jul 13 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- adjust svn URL in spec file

Wed Jul 8 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add libapr-util1-dbd-pgsql to Requires

Fri Jul 3 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add metalink package to Requires

Fri Jul 3 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add updates from svn trunk (r7675):

* mb new:
- try different geoip database locations (GeoIP database was
moved around...). prefer the larger city lite database, if
available, and prefer updated copies that were fetched with the
geoip-lite-update tool.

* mb probefile:
- report the mirror identifier for FTP socket timeouts

* mod_mirrorbrain:
- in the \"generator\" of metalinks, include our version string

* metalink-hasher:
- correct indentation of verification containers

* INSTALL:
take note that the mirrorbrain user is created upon package
installation now

Fri Jul 3 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- create mirrorbrain users\' home dir (/home/mirrorbrain) when
adding the user

Mon Jun 29 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add updates from svn trunk (r7644):

* mirrorprobe: mirrorprobe and logrotate snippet adjusted to
new location in /var/log/mirrorbrain
- move mirrorprobe logfile to /var/log/mirrorbrain/ directory upon
update, create symlink for compatibility.
- create mirrorbrain group and user in %pre
- package a runtime directory (/var/run/mirrorbrain), which is
deleted at boot time by FHS standard
- package a log directory (/var/log/mirrorbrain)

Mon Jun 29 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTnovell.com
- add updates from svn trunk (r7643):

* mirrorprobe:
- logrotate snippet added.

* mb file ls:
- don\'t show stale files, which are no longer on any mirror.
(Regression from around r7592)

* metalink-hasher:
- bump version (1.2)
- reverse the order in which we work through the todo list of directories
to be alphabetical.
- using a \"set\" builtin type instead of a list can speed up finding
obsolete files in the destination directory by 10 times, for huge
directories.
- small improvements in output and program help
- print a summary of deletions.
- catch (and ignore) various errors, as vanishing directories and
exceptions encountered when recursively removing ignored directories.
- install logrotate snippet for mirrorprobe

Fri Jun 26 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add updates from svn trunk r7642:

* metalink-hasher:
- Automatic removal of old hashes, which don\'t have a pendant in
the file tree anymore, was implemented.
- A number of things were optimized to run more efficiently on
huge trees, mainly by eliminating all redundant stat() calls.
- sha256 was added to the list of digests to generated.
- The need to specify the -b (--base-dir) option was eliminated,
so the command is easier to use.

* mb probefile:
- The size of the process pool isn\'t configurable yet (to be
added later). For now, don\'t start more processes than needed
for the jobs. (Apparently the multiprocessing process pool has
a habit to always fork the given number of children processes,
more than needed.)

* geoip-lite-update:
- the tool to fetch GeoIP databases has been updated to use the
path that\'s used in the openSUSE package since recently
(/var/lib/GeoIP). It still tries the old location
(/usr/share/GeoIP) as well, so to continue to work in a
previous setup.

Wed Jun 24 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add updates from svn trun r7604:
mb probefile:
- catch errors that are triggered by unhandled redirects.
TODO: handle redirects.
- use rsync with --list-only when probing for files, and not intending to
actually download them.
- fix displaying the probed URLs (the filename was appended twice)
- improve usage example added in last commit
- add usage examples to the \"osc help probefile\" output
INSTALL:
- link to the documentation Lars created in the wiki

Tue Jun 23 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add updates from SVN trunk r7592:
User visible changes:
- Parallelized mirror probing.
Note: for this new feature, the Python module \"processing\" or
\"multiprocessing\" needs to be installed. If none of them is
found, the fallback behaviour is to probe serially, as before.
This doesn\'t affeect the mirrorprobe, which runs threaded, but
the mb probefile and file commands. It also affects the scanner
to speed up the checks done when only a subdirectory is scanned.
- mb probefile:
- Implemented downloading (and displaying) of content.
- An --urls switch was added, to select the kind of URLs to be probed.
- -urls=scan probes the URLs that would be used in scanning.
- -urls=http probes the (HTTP) base URLs used in redirection.
- -urls=all probes all registered URLs.
- Proxy envvars are unset before probing.
- mb scan:
- Considerably improved logging output, avoiding lots of ugly
messages which look like real errors (and tend to cover real ones)
- Now showing how long scanning took.
Internal changes:
- mb.util:
- A class named Sample was added which can be used to schedule
URLs to probe, as well as collect the results. This should be
a easy-to-use and extensible basis to implement further
probing and mirror sanity checks.
- Implemented rsync probing for directories

Fri Jun 5 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add fix from SVN r7506, which makes rsync authentication work.
Credentials given via rsync URLs in the form of
rsync://:AATT/ work now. Patch
from Lars Vogdt.

Fri Jun 5 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- MirrorBrain 2.8.1 (r7504)
- Python 2.6 compatibility fixes:
- mb file ls --md5: use hashlib module, if available (this fixes a
DepracationWarning given by Python 2.6 when importing the md5 module)
- mb list: the --as option had to be renamed to --asn, because \"as\" is a
reserved keyword in Python, and Python 2.6 is more strict about noticing
this also in cases where just used as an attribute.
- remove the b64_md5 function, which is no longer used since a while
- mb file ls:
- make the --md5 imply the --probe option
- mb export:
- when exporting metadata for import into a VCS, handle additions and deletions
- update docs to point to new RPM packages in the openSUSE build service (in
a repository named Apache:MirrorBrain). The formerly monolithic package has
been split up into subpackages.
- perl-Config-IniFiles added to the list of perl packages required by the
scanner

Thu Jun 4 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- simplify buildrequires a bit

Sat Apr 4 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- add buildrequires for CentOS. A new enough Apache is missing
there, but they can be used for Fedora in a similar way

Sat Apr 4 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- rename package to mirrorbrain and split off some subpackages, so
that dependencies are a little more precisely located where
they\'re needed: - mirrorbrain-tools
- mirrorbrain-scanner
- apache2-mod_mirrorbrain

Tue Mar 31 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r6964:

* mb export: implement a new output format, named \"vcs\". Can be
used to commit changes to a subversion repository and get
change notifications from it. See \"mb help export\" and0
http://mirrorbrain.org/archive/mirrorbrain-commits/0152.html

Mon Mar 30 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- package renamed from apache2-mod_zrkadlo (the old name) to
apache2-mod_mirrorbrain.

Mon Mar 30 14:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to MirrorBrain 2.8 (r6949):

* scanner:
- Larger improvements, mainly with regard to the definition of
patterns for files (and directories) that are to be included from scanning.
Old, hardcoded stuff from the scanner has been removed. Now, excludes can be
defined in /etc/mirrorbrain.conf by scan_exclude and scan_exclude_rsync
directives.
The former takes regular expressions and is effective for FTP and HTTP scans,
while the latter takes rsync patterns, which are passed directly to the
remote rsync daemon.
See http://mirrorbrain.org/archive/mirrorbrain-commits/0140.html for details.
This can decrease the size of the database (>20% for openSUSE), and for many
mirrors it considerably shortens the scan time.
- Fixed a bug where the scanner aborted when encountering filenames in (valid
or invalid) UTF-8 encoding. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490009
- Improved the implementation of exclusions as well as the top-level-inclusion
pattern, which were not correctly implemented to work in subdir scans.
- The source file was incorporated into the tools subdirectory.

* mb dirs:
- New subcommand for showing directories that the database
contains, useful to tune scan exclude patterns.

* The documentation was enhanced in some places, including the
installation docs..

* mod_autoindex_mb:
- This module (which is based on mod_autoindex) was rebased on
httpd-2.2.11.

Fri Mar 27 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- require Apache >= 2.2.6 and libapr-util1 >= 1.3.0

Mon Mar 9 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r6772:

* mod_mirrorbrain:
- documentation updates (mod_mirrorbrain.conf, the example)

Mon Mar 9 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r6748:

* scanner:
- implemented deletion of files from the mirror database for
subdirectory scans. Before, this was only possible with a
full scan. The new database scheme made this possible.
- fixed the implementation of the whitelist for top-level
directories in combination with subdir scans.
- increased the commit frequency for rsync scans, to hold
transactions open less long.
- fixed the \"enable after scan\" option for parallel scans

* mb list:
- add new options to display further selected info about
mirrors: --country --region --prefix --as --prio
The --country conflicts a little with the previous
- c|--country option to select mirrors; the latter is -c now,
which is a little dumb.

Wed Mar 4 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r6694:

* mb file:
- files looked up in the database can now be probed for, and
the response displayed, optionally md5 hash of the downloaded
content. This can be used to check functionality of the
mirrors.

* mb new:
- when a new mirror is created, automatically fill in AS
number and prefix, as well as a little comment with
timestamp

* NEWS updated, and COPYING file added

Tue Mar 3 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r6671:

* mod_mirrorbrain:
- make insertion of broken mirrors into metalinks more
practical, by making it configurable with
MirrorBrainMetalinkBrokenTestMirrors a directive which
specifies a file containing an XML fragment to be inserted.
- document the recently added \"as=...\" query parameter, which
causes a request to be treated as if it was coming from the
autonomous system with the given number

* metalink-hasher:
- make --ignore-mask work for directories, too

* mb tool:
- fix a namespace problem (?) with module importing
- small fix for \"mb delete\"

Mon Mar 2 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r6661:

* mod_mirrorbrain:
- add broken URLs to the top of metalinks for testing purposes.
Clients can trigger this with additional HTTP request header
\"X-Broken-Mirrors: true\"
- remove the variables (in Apache\'s subprocess env) with overly
long names that have been replaced with shorter versions a
while ago

Mon Mar 2 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r6649:
- add directions for upgrading from MB 2.6 to 2.7

Mon Mar 2 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTsuse.de
- update to r6648:

* mod_mirrorbrain 2.7:
- New database scheme for PostgreSQL. Instead of a potentially
huge relational table including timestamps (48 bytes per
row), files and associations are now in a single table, using
smallint arrays for the mirror ids. This makes the table 5x
faster and 1/3 the size. In addition, we need only a single
index on the path, which is a small and very fast b-tree.
This also gives us a good search, and the chance to do
partial deletions (e.g. for a subtree).

* mb tool:
- adjust \"mb file [ls|add|rm]\" and \"mb delete\" to the
array-based database scheme
- adjust \"mb vacuum\" as well. It\'s much easier and also very
fast now.
- mb mirrorlist: fix the mb.files.check_for_marker_files()
function to work with the new mirr_hasfile_byname function

* scanner (v0.30):
- more work on the new database scheme; now fully implemented
- group database writes and commit them in chunks of useful size
- fix criminal indentation
- pass down -I to spawned scanners
- added a few more hardcoded directories to ignore in the
openSUSE tree. Of course, this needs to be made cleanly
configurable.
- handle concurrent insertion of a new file by another scanner.
When scanning for the first time (starting with an empty
database) there is a certain likelyhood that this may occur.
r6616 | poeml | 2009-03-01 21:42:43 +0100 (Sun, 01 Mar 2009) | 4 lines
metalink-hasher:
- add --ignoremask option that specifies a regexp for files that the hashes
should not be done for0