Setup a cron job to update fulfiletimelist in alt. For now run every 6 hours, but once things settle down we can do more often.

files/scripts/update-fullfiletimelist

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# currently runs on secondary01 from cron to update alt
+
+MOD=$1
+[ -z "$MOD" ] && {
+	echo "usage: $0 <module>"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+# This is the new list with timestamps
+
+TMPFILE=$(mktemp -p /tmp/)
+pushd /srv/pub/$MOD > /dev/null
+/usr/local/bin/create-filelist . > $TMPFILE
+if diff $TMPFILE fullfiletimelist > /dev/null; then
+	rm -f $TMPFILE
+else
+	mv $TMPFILE fullfiletimelist
+fi
+chmod 0644 fullfiletimelist
+popd > /dev/null

playbooks/groups/secondary.yml

@@ -62,5 +62,13 @@
   - name: add create-filelist script from quick-fedora-mirror
     copy: src="{{ roles }}/bodhi2/backend/files/create-filelist" dest=/usr/local/bin/create-filelist mode=0755
 
+  - name: add cron script to update fullfiletimelist
+    copy: src="{{ files }}/scripts/update-fullfiletimelist" dest=/usr/local/bin/update-fullfiletimelist mode=0755
+
+  - name: Update fullfiletimelist job
+    cron: name="update-fullfiletimelist" hour="*/6" minute="55" user="root"
+        job="/usr/local/bin/lock-wrapper update-fullfiletimelist '/usr/local/bin/update-fullfiletimelist alt'"
+        cron_file=update-fullfiletimelist
+
   handlers:
   - include: "{{ handlers }}/restart_services.yml"