Thanks for your attention to this. Late reply is better than none, and it was not a burning issue, since it was easy to switch back to the non-new hackage.
Greg On 2013-Sep-11, Duncan Coutts and/or a Mail User Agent wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 16:31 -0400, Gregory Weber wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to report some lag in the mirroring of old hackage > > by the new hackage. > > > > "Note: we are mirroring packages from the old server (currently every > > 30min) so it is suitable to use as your main hackage server with some > > caveats: because we are allowing package authors to upload (as well as > > the mirroring) then you may find a slightly different set of packages > > on this server. " > > > > -- http://new-hackage.haskell.org/ viewed on August 2, 2013 > > > > But for some elm packages, I just noticed today, the versions > > on new hackage are considerably more than 30 minutes older > > than those on old hackage: > > I realise this is a very late reply, but a little explanation is perhaps > still interesting. > > Yes, the mirroring did fail and we didn't have any monitoring set up or > auto restart so we didn't notice for a while. I think I have identified > and fixed the cause of the failure (the mirror client was designed to be > robust to mirroring problems but this one slipped through). > > On the new beta site the mirror client is running under an init script > and the infrastructure team are going to sort out auto restart and > monitoring for us. > > -- > Duncan Coutts, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ -- Gregory D. Weber, Ph. D. http://mypage.iu.edu/~gdweber/ Associate Professor of Informatics Tel (765) 973-8420 Indiana University East FAX (765) 973-8550 _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
