Re: cn.archive.ubuntu.com severely outdated

2007-10-10 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: On Oct 9, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Aaron Whitehouse wrote: ... https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors You should find your mirror cn.archive.ubuntu.com listed under Shanghai Linux User Group. Interestingly, that page says that it is a week behind, but if you click

Re: cn.archive.ubuntu.com severely outdated

2007-10-10 Thread Emmet Hikory
On 10/10/07, Wenzhuo Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps the country level CNAMEs should resolve to archive.ubuntu.com when the mirrors are more than one day behind. This is rarely best. In the common case, any specific piece of software being installed has not changed in the past day

cn.archive.ubuntu.com severely outdated

2007-10-10 Thread Cheng
Hi, I am the mirror administrator of cn.archive.ubuntu.com from Shanghai Linux User Group. Below is the email conversation between us and it can be a bit follow-up on wenzhuo's post. Regarding the upstream mirror source, we found planetmirror which is located in Australia is a quite a good

cn.archive.ubuntu.com severely outdated

2007-10-08 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
Having noticed that the update manager of my Gutsy installation had not seen any updates for about one week, I changed the occurrences of cn.archive.ubuntu.com in sources.list to archive.ubuntu.com. After checking again, the Update Manager prompted that there are 406 updates. This means that

Re: cn.archive.ubuntu.com severely outdated

2007-10-08 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
cn.archive.ubuntu.com has been outdated for about one week. Is there any mechanism on the part of the ubuntu project to make sure the country level mirrors are updated timely? You can find the status of the archive mirrors here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors You should find