Debian bug report logs - #1034, boring messages

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Subject: Bug#1034: timestamps of ./debian-bugs/html/* change daily
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Package: debian-bugs tree on ftp.debian.org
Version: current

I have been mirroring ftp.debian.org on a trial basis and have run
into something strange.  The timestamps of the files in
ftp.debian.org:/debian/debian-bugs/html appear to be reset every day
at around 7am.  This causes my mirror script to unnecessarily download
1000+ files every day.  :-/

BTW, this *is* correct behavior for a mirror script since a change in
timestamp may indicate a change in the contents of a file.  In this
case, the contents of every bug report does not change daily so
something must be wrong.

--Mike

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On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Michael E. Deisher wrote:

> Package: debian-bugs tree on ftp.debian.org
> Version: current
>
> I have been mirroring ftp.debian.org on a trial basis and have run
> into something strange.  The timestamps of the files in
> ftp.debian.org:/debian/debian-bugs/html appear to be reset every day
> at around 7am.  This causes my mirror script to unnecessarily download
> 1000+ files every day.  :-/
>
FYI: I am not causing this to happen. So it must be in one of the cron
sctrips that are running on the system.

Thanks
Matthew S. Bailey

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Matt,

On Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:08:40 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Bailey <mbailey@cps.cmich.edu> said:

> FYI: I am not causing this to happen. So it must be in one of the
> cron sctrips that are running on the system.

I did not mean to imply that you were causing it.  I think you are
right about the cron scripts.

BTW, I just noticed that _all_ files aren't changed every day.  I
checked some of them at random for the last three days and
(coincidently) the ones I checked changed each day.  Regardless, it's
probably not a good idea to be messing around with the timestamps.

--Mike

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