Well Ron, just think of it like this, If they make a direct link to the file
then what is the use of having Mirror sites to reduce the load on the main
server, a direct link efectivly bypasses the whole mirror system, So they make
a link to the Mirrors page and with a few clicks you find one that does have
the file you want. They are not in control of how often the Mirror sites
update so they have a link at the top of the Mirrors list to the main mirror
and a secondary mirror.
I setup fmirror to mirror from the a mirror that I have found to be quite
uptodate and you will probably have the file before you even look at the
e-mail.
I have fmirror check for new files on the contrib directory every 30 minutes.
I have been using
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/
then the file I want is downloaded before I even need it. Only once in the last
several months was a file not mirrored correctly - and it had been pulled for a
fix.
Ron Stodden wrote:
> geoffrey lee wrote:
> >
> > please note that rpmfind.net is updated only once per day. i.e. packages
> > that come out may not have been updated on the rpmfind site yet.
> >
> > rufus is just a convenient place where all the rpm are place but it's not
> > the most updated site for mdk rpm.
>
> Then which site is? That was my question.
>
> And can I be guaranteed that an announced binary RPM is already
> available there at the time of the announcement?
>
> I want the download RPM URL to appear in the announcement so that if I
> want it, all I have to do is click on the URL in the announcment as I
> read it. To have to come back in a day or even one hour is
> unacceptably impractical.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
