Why announce a security update before the mirrors are synced

Mark admin at kclinux.net
Wed Feb 18 22:11:33 UTC 2004


I suggesting using secsup.org as your mirror.  I found they update more 
often and faster than alot of the other mirrors.  And from the midwest 
(Kansas City), their speeds are quite nice.

fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com wrote:

>On Wednesday 18 February 2004 12:54, Mike Burger wrote:
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>>On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com wrote:
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>>>I just received the announcement for the new kernel*2714 yet no mirrors
>>>on the US east list seem to have the new rpms yet.  This is what's
>>>placeing the burden on the master when a announcement is made for an
>>>update.
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>>Because the folks at Fedora/Red Hat have no way to control how often or
>>when the mirrors sync up?
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>Yes, I suppose that's true, but they can give the mirror admins. a heads up 
>when something major is about to become available.  As it is now, us mere 
>mortals jam up the main site, complain that its slow, and keep the mirrors 
>from syncing with our added traffic to the master.  In the past, the new 
>releases test and final are on the mirrors and all open at the same time.  
>I'm sure something could be done, it would just take some effort in the 
>coordination.
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