Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 08:26:04 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r289421 - in head/etc: . mtree ntp Message-ID: <20151018072604.GB95077@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <95712496-46C7-4F1F-B267-F25E4924E3B4@bsdimp.com> References: <201510161404.t9GE4GqM046436@repo.freebsd.org> <8154492E-C29E-41B1-A13B-34E33586DEC6@bsdimp.com> <1445109956.71631.44.camel@freebsd.org> <95712496-46C7-4F1F-B267-F25E4924E3B4@bsdimp.com>
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On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 05:48:19PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > It should be very easy to try to fetch it once a day in June and December > until you succeed from each of the URLs in a list, with the default > list being the two canonical (for the US at least) sources. Shouldn’t > be more than a dozen lines in a periodic script. We probably also want to avoid trying to fetch an update at the same moment from a bunch of time synchronised machines. A random sleep might be enough, but we should be careful about setting automatic updates that fetch things from infrastructure other than our own. David.
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