Keeping the Devel Mirrors Up-to-Date

[Steven Haigh]

Quoting Paul Dickson <paul at permanentmail.com>:
> Has anyone done any tracking of the fedora-development mirrors to see how
> well they've been at keeping up-to-date?

Yeah, I've been emailing the guys who look after mirror.pacific.net.au  
and they've had trouble keeping up. Usually the fedora main site takes  
too long and times out :(

> I just did a "yum list extras" and it listed items that were listed in
> Wednesday's rawhide report.  At times, I've even resorted to tcpdumping
> yum's run to capture the requested host names so I could assign them
> 127.0.0.2 in my /etc/hosts file, just so I could apply development
> updates that were several days old.

Agreed :|

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Steven Haigh

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