What the hell is wrong with the mirrors?  I keep changing from 
rsync://ftp.sunet.se:873 to rsync://ftp.uninett.no:873 and back.  If I do 
get connected I get something like:

receiving file list ... done
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libgimp1.2_1-devel-1.2.3-0.2mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libgimp1.2_1-1.2.3-0.2mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libfam0-devel-2.6.7-2mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libfam0-2.6.7-2mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libalsa1-devel-0.5.10-3mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libalsa1-0.5.10-3mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/lesstif-mwm-0.93.18-1mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/lesstif-devel-0.93.18-1mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/lesstif-clients-0.93.18-1mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/lesstif-0.93.18-1mdk.i586.rpm
deleting i586/Mandrake/RPMS/krozat-8.2-4mdk.i586.rpm
i586/Mandrake/RPMS/

Number of files: 3294
Number of files transferred: 0

That's 11 deletions - rsync command:
rsync -uvrltP --delete --stats --exclude-from=$exclude_file \
  --max-delete=10 --timeout=$TIMEOUT \
  $remotedev/cooker/ $localdir/devel/cooker/

... and NO downloaded files.

Why delete files from mirror before new files are there?
I have complained about this before to Jacques Le Marois 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) but there 
doesn't seem to be any use in doing so again, because nothing gets done.

With a 56K modem and downloaded files frequently corrupt, it now looks as 
if I'm completely wasting my time trying to test cooker.

-- 
Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.  AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM.
Registered Linux User 219434.  Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) 
Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin,  XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk.
KDE: 2.2.2.  Qt: 2.3.2.  Up 5 hours 43 minutes.

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