Bug 26546

Summary:	mirrors.mageia.org/status only reports the status of mirrors with working http connections.
Product:	Websites	Reporter:	Thomas Andrews <andrewsfarm>
Component:	mirrors.mageia.org	Assignee:	Sysadmin Team <sysadmin-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, filip.komar, rihoward1, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	trunk
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Thomas Andrews 2020-04-27 00:20:07 CEST

As it says in the summary, the mirrors.mageia.org/status page only reports the status of mirrors with working http connections. Mirrors that provide rsync or ftp connections but with non-working http are being ignored.

An example, as I write this, would be ftp.belnet.be. Users who might want to use this mirror, or are using it already, should be able to check its status.

If a mirror does have a working http connection, I don't know of any reason to report its ftp and rsync status as well, but then perhaps there is one.

Comment 1 r howard 2020-04-27 00:55:15 CEST

Is it possible to add a status column which could display "up", "down" status or something similar?

CC: (none) => rihoward1

Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2020-04-27 01:11:41 CEST

Also, Mageia 6 should be dropped from the status page, since it's no longer
supported.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 3 r howard 2020-04-27 01:30:52 CEST

In my comment 1 I confused http://mirrors.mageia.org/ with http://mirrors.mageia.org/status. Apologies.

http://mirrors.mageia.org/ is the "Mageia mirrors database" page and has listed a number of mirrors which seem to be no longer reachable for one reason or another.

Comment 4 Dave Hodgins 2020-04-27 02:13:57 CEST

Note that on https://mirrors.mageia.org/ the url column does indicate the
status of all of the connections, by the colour of the link. Red for those
that are not working.

Comment 5 Filip Komar 2020-04-27 20:21:58 CEST

Personally I'm not able to fix it as current is written in perl.
It even seems that is not copied automaticaly (bug 12220 comment 8) from git:
http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/infrastructure/mgamirrors/

I would be probably able to rewrite status and mirror list page in php. But I would still need assistance from sysadmins to put the new scripts in proper place.

CC: (none) => filip.komar

Comment 6 Dave Hodgins 2020-06-04 22:16:51 CEST

From what I can see, it's using php to create/update a database which would
be stored either in php-mysqli or php-pgsql.

Is phpmyadmin for mysql, or phppgadmin for postgresql available for sysadmins
to directly edit the database, and remove the entries for the stale mirrors?