Delay between update emails and actual updates

[Andre Robatino]

Andre Robatino wrote:
> Emails for the latest updates went out about one day ago, but the 
> actual updates don't appear to be on any of the mirrors yet - at least 
> not at
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/
>
> (although I've noticed that the updates-testing directory usually gets 
> updated promptly).  This happens fairly often.  Why are the emails and 
> the actual updates so far out of sync?  Would they be closer together 
> if the updates were put on the mirrors first, then the emails went out?
It finally updated after more than 24 hours.  I wonder whether the 
updates ever appear on any other mirrors first.  The emails shouldn't go 
out until the updates are on at least one mirror.
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