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Sat Feb  8 17:01:40 UTC 2014 - cs@linux-administrator.com

​

- update to 2.18.1 (r8379):

  Bug fixes:

  - geoip-lite-update: This 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. (issue 146)

  - 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. Thanks, Bart!

​

- release 2.18.1 (r8365):

  New features:

  - mod_mirrorbrain: Nick Schermer from Xfce contributed a wonderful patch to

    improve the HTML output for the details pages that MirrorBrain generates (see issue 123).

    As a consequence, in some installations the web design needs to be adjusted,

    but hopefully people will value the better possibilities. The full list of changes can be viewed here.

​

  - mod_mirrorbrain: If multiple instances of MirrorBrain run in Apache

    (or you have multiple vhosts using one MirrorBrain configuration),

    you would have multiple DBDParams statements which prepare SQL statements when Apache starts processes.

    Peculiarly, Apache doesn’t allow the same connection string used more than once.

    (To make the connection strings unique, a possible workaround is to use differing connect_timeout values.)

    Anyhow, to help users running into this problem, MirrorBrain used to log a warning (added in 2009).

    This warning was removed when the DBD error handling was reworked in 2.16.1 (2012).

    It replaced with much more detailed error logging, but the helpful one-liner was missing hence.

    This release re-adds the helpful one-liner, and it’ll also show the workaround at the same time.

    In addition, the documentation was enhanced. Thanks Stephan Jauernick.

  - The installation documentation was updated in many places.

  - mb: new command line option for configuration file path. Patch kindly provided by Gökdeniz Karadağ (see also issue 114)

  - mb update: The geoiplookup and geoiplookup_city binaries are now also looked for in /usr/share/mirrorbrain. Helps to solve the packaging cleanup issue 110.

  - 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. Thanks Andrea Veri for the report.

  - 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, so distribution builders could use preprocessor definitions to

    define them instead of patching the code. Patch by Dagobert Michelsen. Thanks! (issue 130)

  - mirrorprobe: in the --help output, display the default value for the network timeout (20 seconds)

​

Bug fixes:

  - There’s a version table in the database since recently (created since 2.17.0),

    but it didn’t contain an id column as primary key, so SQLObject couldn’t work with it.

    So now we add an id column as primary key to the table (and an existing table from 2.17.0 is migrated by simply recreating it from scratch).

  - The database SQL scheme for new installations has been updated to add the new column named ipv6_only.

    Thanks George Koutras, Raphael Hertzog and others for the report (and for their patience)! (issue 119)

  - 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. (issue 82)

  - mb / mirrorbrain.conf: Trailing(!) spaces in passwords were taken literally so far,

    but were very hard to see and hard to debug. Now, trailing spaces are rightfully ignored (issue 112).

    Thanks to patch from Pat Riehecky!

  - mb now gives sane error messages when a config statement is missing/misspelled in /etc/mirrorbrain.conf.

  - mb: when mod_asn is not installed, an additional ProgrammingError exception from the sqlobject.dberrors can occur.

    This is now also caught. Thanks Gökdeniz very much for the patch!

  - mb makehashes: “permission denied” errors are now handled gracefully,

    fixing issue 105. Thanks Tom Albers for report & patch!

  - metalink-hasher.py: This very old (backward) compatibility wrapper has been removed from the tools directory,

    since it is long obsolete.

  - 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.

    Thanks Dagobert for the fix! (issue 135)

  - mb edit: A mistyped dash in the commands help output was fixed. Thanks Dago! (issue 136)

  - mb update: This command now handles errors that lead to Null as prefix or Null as AS number,

    so the command doesn’t crash anymore under these conditions. (issue 137)

  - mb dirs: When using the -d or --missing option, only enabled mirrors are shown now. Thanks Florian! (issue 116)

  - tools/geoiplookup_*: They no longer segfault when opening a GeoIP database database fails.

    Patch courtesy of Dagobert Michelsen. (issue 138)

  - mb scan:

        When FTP URLs are not correct, and the directory is not found on an FTP server,

        the scanner bailed out. Fixed with patch from Dago. (issue 139)

        when in verbose mode, don’t wrongly log symlinks as directories (issue 141)

  - The file mb/countries.py was never used; remove it so it doesn’t confuse anyone. Thanks Gokdeniz for the hint.

  - The build on openSUSE 13.1 was fixed.

  - The build on RHEL6 was fixed, with a patch courtesy of jcpunk. (issue 125)

​

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Sat Apr 21 00:31:57 UTC 2012 - poeml@cmdline.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.

​

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Sat Mar 31 22:40:08 UTC 2012 - poeml@cmdline.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)

​

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Sun Mar 25 10:46:45 UTC 2012 - poeml@cmdline.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.

​

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Tue Feb 21 00:08:05 UTC 2012 - poeml@cmdline.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

​

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Sun Nov 14 17:38:03 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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

​

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Fri Nov 12 21:32:33 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.net

​

- enable building on Fedora

​

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Sat Nov  6 04:04:26 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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

​

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Tue Oct 19 16:39:04 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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.

​

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Sun Sep 26 01:35:24 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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.

​

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Thu Sep 23 16:25:18 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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)

​

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Sun Sep 19 18:23:11 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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)

​

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Sat Sep 18 02:02:02 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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.

​

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Wed Sep  8 00:00:47 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.net

​

- expanding on the Ubuntu fix for issue 6. See comment

  http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/msg236

​

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Tue Sep  7 21:27:59 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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

​

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Tue Sep  7 16:26:47 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.net

​

- Debian/Ubuntu packaging (issue #4):

  - user and group are now created automatically on installation

  - /var/log/mirrorbrain is included in the package now

​

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Mon Sep  6 17:12:13 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.net

​

- update to (probably final) r8123

- rsyncinfo.py renamed to rsyncinfo

- install the bdecode tool

​

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Mon Sep  6 14:43:58 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.net

​

- update to r8115

  - The module now works also when the path in the <Directory> contains

    symlinks, fixing issue #17

  - Further documentation updates

​

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Sun Sep  5 22:45:23 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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.

​

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Thu Sep  2 19:17:36 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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

​

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Thu Sep  2 14:38:01 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.net

​

- bug fixes for Debian Lenny / old APR (1.2)

​

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Thu Sep  2 13:24:49 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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.

​

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Wed Sep  1 14:46:45 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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)

​

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Mon Aug 30 11:30:15 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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)

​

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Wed May  5 12:21:36 CEST 2010 - mls@suse.de

​

- work around mirrorbrain bug that caused metalink files with no mirrors

​

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Sun Feb 21 15:47:23 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.net

​

- on Debian & Ubuntu, let the mirrorbrain-scanner package depend on the

  libtimedate-perl package. Thanks Christophe Vandeplas from fosdem.org for 

  this fix.

​

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Wed Feb 10 22:43:14 UTC 2010 - poeml@cmdline.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

​

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Fri Dec 18 01:37:49 UTC 2009 - poeml@cmdline.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.

​

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Wed Dec 16 16:45:34 UTC 2009 - poeml@cmdline.net

​

- fix compile failure on openSUSE 11.2, where the gcc arguments order matters,

  due to well-hidden SUSE_ASNEEDED=1 in the environment

​

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Wed Dec 16 15:52:30 UTC 2009 - poeml@cmdline.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

​

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Sat Dec  5 20:45:20 UTC 2009 - poeml@cmdline.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

​

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Thu Dec  3 11:48:17 UTC 2009 - poeml@cmdline.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.

​

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Wed Dec  2 03:23:44 UTC 2009 - poeml@cmdline.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.

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Tue Dec  1 23:57:59 UTC 2009 - poeml@cmdline.net

​

- Debian/Ubuntu: add postinstall/postrm script that load/unloads

  mod_mirrorbrain

​

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Fri Nov 27 23:58:55 UTC 2009 - poeml@cmdline.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.

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Wed Nov  4 16:37:50 UTC 2009 - poeml@cmdline.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.

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Wed Sep 30 15:59:25 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- split off a python-mb package, so the package layout is simimar

  to the Debian/Ubuntu package

​

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Tue Sep 29 22:00:37 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- split off a apache2-mod_autoindex_mb package, so the package

  layout is similar to the Debian/Ubuntu package

​

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Tue Sep 29 19:40:35 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Wed Sep  9 04:27:20 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Mon Sep  7 11:41:36 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- add fix from r7792, which makes the metalink-hasher suppress the

  messages about ignored files - restoring the previous behaviour.

​

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Fri Sep  4 18:40:44 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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.

​

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Fri Aug 21 23:08:52 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Wed Aug 12 03:02:46 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Thu Jul 30 05:31:35 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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.

​

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Tue Jul 28 20:20:42 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Tue Jul 28 00:12:04 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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.

​

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Fri Jul 17 02:53:41 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Mon Jul 13 23:33:37 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- adjust svn URL in spec file

​

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Wed Jul  8 22:15:37 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- add libapr-util1-dbd-pgsql to Requires

​

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Fri Jul  3 14:20:50 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- add metalink package to Requires

​

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Fri Jul  3 14:07:38 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Fri Jul  3 12:01:12 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- create mirrorbrain users' home dir (/home/mirrorbrain) when

  adding the user

​

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Mon Jun 29 14:05:24 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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)

​

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Mon Jun 29 11:23:38 CEST 2009 - poeml@novell.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

​

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Fri Jun 26 14:43:25 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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.

​

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Wed Jun 24 17:43:42 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Tue Jun 23 22:11:09 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Fri Jun  5 17:37:31 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- add fix from SVN r7506, which makes rsync authentication work.

  Credentials given via rsync URLs in the form of

  rsync://<username>:<password>@<host>/<module> work now. Patch

  from Lars Vogdt.

​

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Fri Jun  5 14:22:32 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

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Thu Jun  4 12:56:20 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- simplify buildrequires a bit

​

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Sat Apr  4 17:38:25 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- add buildrequires for CentOS. A new enough Apache is missing

  there, but they can be used for Fedora in a similar way

​

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Sat Apr  4 16:52:53 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Tue Mar 31 02:21:41 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Mon Mar 30 02:27:40 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- package renamed from apache2-mod_zrkadlo (the old name) to

  apache2-mod_mirrorbrain.

​

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Mon Mar 30 02:17:12 CEST 2009 - poeml@suse.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.

​

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Fri Mar 27 15:53:35 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- require Apache >= 2.2.6 and libapr-util1 >= 1.3.0

​

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Mon Mar  9 22:33:59 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6772:

  * mod_mirrorbrain:

    - documentation updates (mod_mirrorbrain.conf, the example)

​

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Mon Mar  9 10:17:33 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.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.

​

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Wed Mar  4 18:39:08 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Tue Mar  3 14:57:58 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.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" 

​

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Mon Mar  2 23:02:17 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.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

​

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Mon Mar  2 12:46:54 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6649:

  - add directions for upgrading from MB 2.6 to 2.7

​

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Mon Mar  2 02:15:56 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.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.

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metalink-hasher:

- add --ignoremask option that specifies a regexp for files that the hashes

  should not be done for0

​

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Thu Feb 26 15:45:28 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6597:

  * scanner:

    - improve FTP reconnection handling. Attempt to reconnect only

      when more than 60 seconds have passed since the last activity

      in the connection, thus dealing with a true timeout that

      happened in the FTP server.

​

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Thu Feb 26 03:20:07 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6594:

  * scanner:

    - implement for FTP, what was done for HTTP and rsync

      yesterday: allow the definition of top-level directories that

      are scanned and ignore all others. Saves on database size,

      and makes scans a lot faster in many cases.

    - in addition, the configuration to ignore certain paths has

      never worked for FTP; should be fixed now as well, however I

      didn't test it.

​

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Wed Feb 25 16:18:42 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6588:

  * scanner:

    - fix a two-fold bug in FTP scanning:

      First, ignore bogus return values from Perls Net::FTP, which

      claim a 550 status code when in fact a timeout happend (421).

      FTP servers may close connections when they are idle, and

      when the scanner (or database) takes to long to chew on a

      filelist, this may happen.

      Fix both issues by ignoring the reported 550, and attempting

      to reconnect.

​

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Wed Feb 25 03:42:50 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6572:

  * scanner:

    - another measure to save on database size: allow the

      definition of top-level directories that are scanned, and all

      others ignored. Implemented for HTTP and rsync scanning so

      far; FTP missing.

    - add stub for using a different database scheme (experimental,

      disabled)

  * mb scan:

    - pick up a new option named scan_top_include from

      /etc/mirrorbrain.conf and pass it to the scanner

  * mb vacuum:

    - fix mb vacuum, the database cleanup tool, to work with

      PostgreSQL MySQL idiosyncrasies removed, (although I didn't

      test it with MySQL to see whether it still works with that

      database)

​

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Tue Feb 24 20:18:08 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6564:

  * mod_mirrorbrain:

    - for logging purposes, distinguish mirrors that are in the

      same country from mirrors that act as fallback mirrors for

      the country

  * mb mirrorlist:

    - take care that the new private mirror type doesn't end up on

      the generated public mirror list

​

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Tue Feb 24 17:38:53 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6561:

  * mod_mirrorbrain:

    - fix bug that occured with version 2.5 and affects PostgreSQL

      installs: make the region_only, country_only, as_only,

      prefix_only flags work again

    - allow to override the client IP's autonomous system by HTTP

      query parameter (?as=[0-9]*)

    - implement the missing redirection exceptions mirrors marked

      AS-only or prefix-only.

    - fix selection of mirrors into the metalinks, which didn't

      respect the *_only flags so far.

    - avoid rendering invalid XML for metalinks, when autonomous

      system or network prefix are unknown, and set to "--". Show

      "unknown" instead.

​

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Sun Feb 22 16:31:45 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6537:

  * mb tool: 

    - handle DNS errors when updating mirrors with network data

  * scanner:

    - better output, showing more exactly where time is spent.

    - when scanning all mirrors, start with those that have been

      scanned longest ago

    - cleanup of dead code

​

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Sat Feb 21 20:35:59 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6531:

  - MirrorBrain SQL schema: 

    * remove timestamp_file column

    * timestamp_scanner is a UNIX epoch now, which is a little

      smaller than an SQL timestamp.

    * better indexes

  - mod_mirrorbrain: 

    * shorten the SQL query

  - scanner: 

    * adjusted for the new SQL scheme

    * fix printing of database error strings

  - mb tool: 

    * work around the requirement of SQLObject to have a primary

      key in each table, by simulating one for it (with a table

      view)

    * mb iplookup: add --all-prefixes option

​

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Fri Feb 13 08:19:25 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6452:

  - mod_mirrorbrain 2.6

    * additional mirror selection criteria are autonomous system

      and network prefix, as looked up by mod_asn and provided by

      the mirror database

    * shorten the names of variables set in the subprocess

      environment - the long ones are still there but can be

      obsoleted soon, once the change is deployed.

    * set MB_REALM to be available for logging.

  - Two new mirrordoctor tools added:

    * "mb iplookup" looks up network prefix and AS

    * "mb update" can set/update this data across the database (all

      mirrors)

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Thu Feb 12 18:49:04 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

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- update to r6444:

  - mb tool: 

    * allow to set the mirrorbrain instance via MB env var (command

      option still exists, and overrides it)

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Thu Feb 12 02:09:43 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6441:

  - metalink-hasher: 

    * make sure that the file and directory permissions are not

      copied, because for staged content this means that they might

      be unreadable. Since the hashes don't contain any reversible

      information, there is no reason to treat them as confidential

      (and Apache would not deliver them anyway, since they are not

      in the Docroot at all). Add an option that allows permission

      copying." tools/metalink-hasher.py

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Thu Feb 12 01:02:55 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6440:

  - scanner:

    * fix missing initialization of a variable used for logging the

      server identifier - useful for debugging

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Wed Feb 11 23:35:13 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6439:

  - Interim release with further work on PostgreSQL support -

  - updates to INSTALL docs

  - MirrorBrain SQL schema: 

    * add country and region data for importing into newly created databases

    * add asn and prefix field, and flags to limit mirror selection

      by these, and remove obsolete netblock field

  - mb probefile:

    * add --md5 option; when doing probe requests, it'll do actual

      downloads and show md5 sums of the responses

  - mb export:

    * add postgresql (insert statements) as export format

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Wed Feb  4 21:25:51 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6377:

  - scanner:

     * be less verbose, don't print out each directory visited.

       Rather show progress in a way that makes sense and stays

       readable when mirrors are scanned in parallel. Prefix output

       with mirror names

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Wed Feb  4 17:30:50 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6373:

  - mod_mirrorbrain:

    * for reasons of consistency, remove the MirrorBrainInstance

      directive when the module is compiled without memcache

      support, because it was used only to give memcache keys a

      unique name.

  - mirrorprobe:

    * be less verbose: don't send mail, and don't add a note to the

      comment field each time a mirror is not reachable

    * make it work with PostgreSQL

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Tue Feb  3 23:22:36 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6360:

  - scanner:

     - fix enabling servers after scan. Make it work with both

       PostgreSQL boolean type as well asn MySQL's tinyint.

  - mirrorbrain tool (mb delete):

     - when deleting a mirror, cascade delete all references first

  - further work on the INSTALL document

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Tue Feb  3 21:10:10 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6357:

   - scanner: 0.22

      - more efficient SQL statement handling

      - added SQL logging option for debugging

   - mb (mirrorbrain tool): 

      - bugfix in the file command: make patterns work which have a

    wildcard as first character.

      - extend "mb scan" to accept -v and --sql-debug and pass it

    to the scanner

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Tue Feb  3 10:49:06 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

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- update to r6332:

  version 2.5

  * intermediate release - working on the database schema, and on

    the tools, to allow PostgreSQL as backend database.

  * working on the installation howto

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Fri Jan 23 23:05:39 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6154:

  version 2.4

  * mod_zrkadlo was renamed to mod_mirrorbrain

  * memcache support is now optional at compile time

  * update installation instructions

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Fri Jan 23 15:39:17 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6128:

  * mod_zrkadlo: 

     - accept digits in two-letter country codes, so that satellite

       "country" A2 is accepted in queries

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Wed Jan 21 20:33:09 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6075:

  * mod_zrkadlo version 2.3:

     - rely on mod_geoip to do GeoIP lookups. Deployment obviously

       equires configured mod_geoip.

     - deprecate "clientip" query parameter, which can no longer work

       once we use mod_geoip.

     - implement 'country" parameter that can be used instead.

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Wed Jan 21 01:17:10 CET 2009 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r6065:

  * mod_zrkadlo: 

     - don't do memory-intensive caching of the GeoIP database.

  * geoiplookup_continent: 

     - make continent lookups work with GeoIPCity databases

  * geoip-lite-update tool: 

     - adjust for the new URL of GeoLiteCountry database 

     - download also updates of the city database

  * geoiplookup_city: 

     - new tool to show details from the GeoIP city databases

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Mon Dec 29 23:35:48 CET 2008 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r5980:

  * mirrorprobe:

     - auto-reenable mirrors.

     - include details in the mail subject, not only in the body

  * mb markers: 

     - new commandline tool to edit marker files in $EDITOR

  * mb probefile: 

     - add option to probe on a single mirror

  * mb mirrorlist:

     - allow configurable html footer & header to be added in

     - override caption and title by commandline arguments.

     - remove openSUSE specific stuff that was hardcoded

     - add timestamp to header template

     - get regions from the database

     - improve table - odd row class, cgi-escape html entities, ...

     - every 20 rows, add another table header line

     - exclude wildcard mirrors from the mirror lists.

     - use stars instead of the raw priority values

     - allow to add the creation time into the templates

     - assign <col id="..."/> column ids

     - add title attributes into each td element for accessibility

       (not sure whether the column ids/headers are enough)

  * tools/create_timestamp: add an explanatory text to the timestamp files

  * change "Taiwan, Province of China" to the more neutral "Taiwan"

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Sat Dec 13 14:54:16 CET 2008 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r5892:

  * mb probefile: 

     - add support for checking not only HTTP, but also FTP and

       rsync URLs. 

     - bypass intermediate caching proxies.

     - use a rigorous timeout of 20 seconds for every network

       operation.

     - add option to also test mirrors which are currently

       disabled, or whose HTTP server is unreachable.

  * mirrorprobe:

     - handle refused connections on FTP URLs

     - use GET requests rather than HEAD requests. It is safer; I

       just saw a crashed mirror hanging indefinitely only on GET

       requests.

  * rsyncusers tool: 

     - make it compatible with oldish Python (2.3)

  * create_timestamp:

     - a new tool added. Can serve as example.

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Thu Dec  4 05:05:49 CET 2008 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r5802:

  * mb tool: add editable public_notes field

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Tue Dec  2 03:34:41 CET 2008 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r5778:

  * mb tool: work on generated mirrorlists.

​

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Tue Nov 25 13:46:35 CET 2008 - poeml@suse.de

​

- update to r5701:

  * mod_zrkadlo: improve the wording in mirror lists, so it doesn't

    claim that fallback mirrors are in the same country

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