Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

[Mike McGrath]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 17:30:14 -0600,
>   Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 23:52:24 +0100,
> > >   Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It takes days for updates to be distributed to mirrors. A week may be
> > > > nothing for that important power-user of app 'A', who would find a problem
> > > > as soon as he *would* try out a test-update.
> > >
> > > Some mirrors. Others have stuff within hours. Currently most of the kernel.org
> > > mirrors are picking stuff up pretty rapidly. Though things change over time.
> > >
> >
> > Are we seeing mirrors that are more than 2 days out of date in the mirror
> > list?
>
> I occasionally see mirrors that appear to be that far out of date. Though
> the way it happens is if the kernel.org mirrors are lagging (maybe some other
> distro had an update), I'll use the rawhide mirrors web page and go looking
> for other mirrors that appear to be up to date and then use them for rsyncing
> for a while and then go back to mirrorsX.kernel.org. I suspect that there
> are some that update weekly based on the lag I see.
> If I run accross examples in the future, is there information you would like
> captured?
>

yes please, stop by #fedora-admin and try to get ahold of mdomsch or
myself.

	-Mike