On Sunday 12 October 2003 01:51 pm, Quel Qun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What exactly is the problem with these mirrors? Or is it at the main
> server? How many decades will this problem reappear?
>
> Currently there are two spec-helper and webmin rpm and fmirror downloads
> them again and again, everytime I run it. During the freeze, there was a
> bunch of mandrake rpms causing the same problem.
>
> Isn't there any way to solve this problem? That's a lot of wasted
> bandwidth. My connection speed has recently been devided by four and now
> I really feel it.
>
> The main problem is that I never really know if I am really in sync.
> Please no advice about rsync or timefuzz.
lol just so you know I tried rsync and it redownloads the same packages so it
is really no help here anyway. I prefer fmirror also as I dont like what
rsync does. To be more clear I dont trust it to download the right stuff as I
have seen it mess up my local mirror before.
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