What is the problem with the mirrors?

[John Ellson]

Noa Resare wrote:

>tis 2004-03-23 klockan 16.03 skrev Jakub Jelinek:
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>>On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:41:39AM -0500, John Ellson wrote:
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>>>>There aren't many March 22 changes, just rpmdb-redhat...
>>>>Several mirrors have even March 22 changes.  What arch are you looking for?
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>>>i386
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>>>ibiblio doesn't have any rpmdb
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>>>kernel.org has rpmdb for March 19, but not March 22.
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>>>duke seems to have died altogether
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>>>redhat mirrors are impossible to log into this morning
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>>If you want i386, then
>>{ftp,http}://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora/development/
>>has everything up to and including March 22. Ditto ia64.
>>Other arches are not 100% up2date though, since the current download
>>speed from master is not very good and if you have ~ 35GB of
>>constantly changing rawhide...
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>I think it's obvious from this that development/rawhide should be
>distribtuted independently from the released fredora trees. Having
>stable updates distribution being delayed for days because all mirrors
>are busy downloading contless gigabyes of development updates to
>architectures very few uses seems like a problem that should get some
>priority in fixing.
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>With numerous well connected mirrors as well as lots of bandwith to the
>master site there should be no problem creating a rock solid fast
>mirroring system with a little work.
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>/noa
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I guess I don't see the need to separate.  If the mirroring system was 
able to handle the large number
of development updates in a timely fashion then it would presumably have 
little problem with a small
number of stable-release updates.

The problem as I understand it is with the master server(s) that supply 
private/prioritized access to the mirrors.

John