Get message "Nothing to do" when yum installing kernel-2.6.22.1-33.fc7

[Kam Leo]

On 01 Aug 2007 13:55:57 -0400, DJ Delorie <dj at delorie.com> wrote:
>
> "Kam Leo" <kam.leo at gmail.com> writes:
> > One distro, was it SUSE?,  had the sync schedule of their mirrors. It
> > would be really nice if Fedora mirrors provided that data, too.
>
> What the DJGPP mirrors do is, the master writes a "mirror.ts"
> timestamp file, with the time (seconds since epoch) and type (full,
> partial, etc) in it.  It does this hourly.  Nightly, it reads all the
> registered mirrors' timestamps and determines which are keeping up to
> date and which aren't, and updates the web page accordingly.
>
> Examples:
> http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/mirror.ts
> http://djgpp.linux-mirror.org/mirror.ts

Thanks, it's good to know that you have a means to check up on
mirrors. It does not solve the issue at hand for the "got to have it
now" user; i.e. how long a delay from announcement of a released
package until it propagates to a given mirror.