What's up with x86_64?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:26 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> said:
> > This part should be fixed with today's push (which is on the main server
> > and should be propagating to mirrors)
> 
> Things bring up a question: what time does the push to the master finish
> typically?

The thing I can say definitively is what time the builds start.  And
that's 5 am Eastern (US) time (`TZ=America/New_York date` if you're
unclear on your offset from that :)

The completion time depends on a number of factors including:
* build system congestion
* did we break something
* did the build hang for some reason

> Right now, I've got my mirror set to start syncing rawhide at 8am
> (Central time).  That worked fine before, but now I've noticed that most
> days I don't get a synced tree (which makes it mostly broke).  What is
> the best practice for this?

Generally speaking, that's probably an okay time.  If you push it back
an hour or two, you're more likely to be good.  If you're a mirror,
though, I'd just try to do hourly syncs of the development tree.  It
really should only end up being a bandwidth hit once a day and if not,
it's because we screwed something up and had to push something different
manually.

Also, using --delete-after and --delay-updates can help to reduce the
window during which things are inconsistent.

Jeremy