On Friday 18 Jan 2002 16:35, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > Silvestro Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I try cc to Warly...may be he can do something for synching mirrors > > before > > > > this cooker-weekend...;o) > > > I tried ftp.uninett.no , carroll.cac.psu.edu, sunet.... > > > Cu...;o) > > > > most of the mirrors are only updated once a day, so it will only > > become > > > strange if the 1.623 install is not available by 8pm today. > > 1. It is not true. Most of the time mirror I use and which is > designated as primary mirror is updated immediately (~1 hour after new > RPM has been released) > > 2. Even if it is updated only daily - why RPMs are deleted FIRST and > then after a DAY new RPMs are uploaded? This screws up everybody's > mirror and results in "always out of sync" case. > > -andrej
I reported this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:34:09 +0000... > I, like many others, get my Mandrake local mirrors using Rod Stodden's > and Troels Liebe Bentsen's rsync scripts. The main bonus of these > scripts is the renaming of local mirror files as they get upgraded, > prior to download. This means that if Mandrale updates > foo-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm > to foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm, the local mirror copy is renamed to > foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm and we only download the difference, not the > complete file. > Now I keep seeing messages like this: > receiving file list ... done > deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libarts2-devel-2.2.2-19mdk.i586.rpm > ...which means that the remote mirror is deleting > foo-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm before loading foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm. > Could you please get the mirrors to reverse this process? - that is > load new rpm then delete old rpm. > I believe this may be happening on sunet.se as well. It _is_ still happening on both sunet and uninett. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM. Registered Linux User 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Up 2 days 4 hours 20 minutes. -------------------------------------------------------------------
