When will the mirrors be updated?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 12:26 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> said:
> > On 20 September 2012 10:12, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf at omen.com> wrote:
> > > yum update is up to rc6 on the kernel, but
> > >
> > >   mirrors1.kernel.org::fedora/development/18/x86_64/os
> > >
> > > is only at rc2.   When will the development tree be updated?
> > 
> > mirroring is a pull technology not a push technology. EG we can update
> > all we want but it is up to the mirror to pull the data down to their
> > servers. In cases where a mirror is way behind you need to contact the
> > mirror administrators and let them know.
> 
> Yeah, you say "mirrors" and then list one.
> 
> Looking into it more though, the problem appears to be that you are
> looking in the wrong place.  I have kernel-3.6.0-0.rc6.git0.2.fc18 in
> updates/testing/18, not development/18 (which IIRC is normal
> post-Alpha).  My mirror synced that a couple of days ago (Sep 18 20:15
> UTC).

updates/testing/18 is updates-testing. development/18 is 'fedora', aka
stable. Things only show up in development/18 when they have been pushed
stable through Bodhi.
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