Hello,

usually I use more than 1 mirror in order to update my cooker (with 
mirror.pl).  Last week it happened that half of all the packages of 
ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de were downloaded even though they already existed on 
my harddisk.

I didn't use any other mirror since then.  Today I tried to use ftp.lip6.fr 
and it also started to "update" packages which I already have, and which
are dated Feb 6.

package=cooker_rpms1 
ftp.lip6.fr:/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS 
-> /pub/mirror/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
Scanning local directory /pub/mirror/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
Scanning remote directory 
/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
compare directories (src 2130, dest 2130)
Got synthesis.hdlist.cz 147344 3
Got XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm 490093 7
Got XFree86-static-libs-4.2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm 2375642 29

--------------------

-r--r--r--    1 root     root       490093 Feb  6 23:30 
./cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm

So I aborted that transfer and switched back to esslingen:

package=cooker_rpms1 
ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de:/pub/Mirrors/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS 
-> /pub/mirror/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
Scanning local directory /pub/mirror/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
Scanning remote directory 
/pub/Mirrors/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
compare directories (src 2130, dest 2131)
Got synthesis.hdlist.cz 147428 2
Got XFree86-static-libs-4.2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm 2375634 27
Got XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm 490085 6

How come that the file sizes differ?

I used to be able to switch from one mirror to another, updating from the more
current one.. but at the moment it's impossible since I don't know which 
mirror is correct.

So what's going on there?  Anyone knows?

Rgds,
Rainer

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