[ CC'ing mirrors-discuss; any mirror operators who have plenty of disk
space (especially second-levels), it would be helpful to switch to using
--delay-updates in your rsync lines. It won't fix all occurrences of this,
but should significantly reduce them. ]

On 2013/07/17 11:18, James Griffin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Again pkg_add -iu is not able to update some of my cups/cups-filters 
> libraries. I tried it yesterday and again today but the problem persists.
> 
> $PKG_PATH is: ftp://ftp5.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/

$ ftp ftp://ftp5.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/
Connected to ftp5.eu.openbsd.org.
220 anga.funkfeuer.at FTP server ready.
331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password.
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Type set to I.
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls aa*
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
-rw-r--r--  1 276  125  156832 Jul 12 22:55 aalib-1.4p5.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 276  125   41302 Jul 13 19:55 aamath-0.3p0.tgz
l226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls zz*
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
-rw-r--r--  1 276  125  110555 Jul  8 20:30 zziplib-0.13.60p1.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 276  125  167619 Jul  9 16:24 zzuf-0.13p2.tgz
226 Transfer complete.

amd64 and i386 package snapshots usually take somewhere around 24h to
build; files dated from within 2-3 days are probably from the same build,
but 4-5 days like this indicates that the mirror is mid-sync.

> Would someone be kind enough to suggest some way around this?
> I reported a similar problem some days ago, then it was ok as I changed my
> $PKG_PATH - this is only the 2nd time I've had issues updating packages
> since using the OS.

>From a quick scan of a couple of other European mirrors, these are
in-sync for amd64 packages at the moment:

ftp.ch.openbsd.org
ftp.fr.openbsd.org
ftp.eu.openbsd.org
mirror.bytemark.co.uk
mirror.dotsrc.org

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