Elsewhere someone suggested that the master mirror should be updated only once or twice a day, this could well stop some of this madness.
For quite a while I lost Evolution and so used Kmail to pull my mail, leaving the mails on my server, when I got Evolution working again I had 650 mails, this morning another 150. What did I find? Numerous changelog posts with incremental changes for the same packages, there were even two people packaging different major versions of the same program. So I check my cron messages, according to them, there was nothing to update for my local mirror during the night. Try urpmi.update on another mirror, nothing. If most people cannot obtain the new version to test how is it decided to make an incremental change? The mirrors must now resync across the world and so by definition will always be out of sync. If you send a post to cooker as I did this morning, it can take half a day before the confirm comes back and it is finally distributed, there's a good chance you are now reporting on a defunct version. "Works here", "Make sure you are 100% cooker" come the answers. Before I "retired" to France I worked in the UK as head of R&D for the market leader in specialist software used in the construction industry. If I caused this much havoc to our customers, with the financial consequences to them, I would have been hung out to dry. -- Dave Cotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
