[fink-core] Suggestion to use mirmon to check Fink mirrors via heartbeat file

[Ilgaz Ö. <Il...@fa...>]

Hello,

I was configuring ClamAv 0.92 and had to check the mirror list of Clam  
project. I saw a very detailed mirror list with detailed status  
showing status of all mirrors.
http://www.clamav.org/mirrors.html

I have checked the badge bottom of the page, it is "mirmon" developed  
by a Apache developer which is not agressive, doesn't ping or do very  
advanced things.
http://people.cs.uu.nl/henkp/mirmon/

It looks for a small file on each mirror hourly (default, which can be  
changed) and renders a nice webpage (you can see from the Clam link  
above) which you can even ordinarily password protect if you want the  
data not to be public for some reason.

It is used by Debian, FreeBSD and many other credible organisations  
like KDE. As far as I understand, it is also capable of displaying  
outdated mirrors which would be great for rsync and cvs.

I think  it may put an end to mirrors going up and down or being  not  
reliable when people see all in single place.

Have a nice day, keep up the nice work

Ilgaz Öcal