F7 updates not making to public

Wed Aug 29 11:00:41 UTC 2007

On 29/08/2007, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 11:05 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Anyway, concerning your comment, Tim, for a mirror to be up-to-date
> > quickly after new updates have been released, it takes a passionate
> > mirror-admin.
>
> I would have thought it to be entirely automatic, so the admin didn't
> have to do anything unless a fault occurred.  At least for the mirrors
> that YUM has lists of.

All depends on what kind of mirroring script the mirror-admin uses.
How does it deal with a failed download or a download that takes a
long time? Does it retry? Or does it wait until the next day? Does it
mirror Updates more often than the releases/Everything repo? Is the
admin aware of Extras seeing updates almost on a daily basis?