What's wrong with the up2date???

Roger Beever roger2 at rogernet.net
Fri Feb 13 18:22:20 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 18:13, M.Hockings wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> >Am Fr, den 13.02.2004 schrieb António Vasconcelos um 18:19:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello.
> >>I have Fedora installed (Core 1) and I just can't complete the update 
> >>list.... Or because of  service was reseted or, because the downloads 
> >>are transfering at very low speed (and it's is not a problem with my 
> >>connection...).
> >>Can anyone tell me what is happening?
> >>Too much people accessing the site, the updates or just....????
> >>
> >>Thank you very much to all for your patience and dedication
> >>Best regards
> >>António Vasconcelos - PT
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Use a mirror server! kernel updates and the new FC2 test1 slow down the
> >main server. Follow:
> >
> >http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror
> >
> >Alexander
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Good article Alexander.
> 
> I have a question.  I have a local mirror that I create by rsync'ing 
> with a mirror.  This works very well to keep the 4 or 5 FC1 machines 
> here updated.  I notice that occasionally I seem to pick up a corrupt 
> file from the mirror and I have to delete the rpm and re-rsync with 
> another mirror to pick up a good version.  My question is this, do 
> mirrors self-correct in that they detect a difference in the file and 
> pull down the correct version on their next sync or is it a user's 
> responsibility to report it to the mirror's operator?
> 
> In my case the kernel source for the 2166 kernal was only 5M (should be 
> around 40M) from zeniiia in the UK.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mike
> Mike if it was the latest kernel and before about 23:00 last night
 the answer is they get corrected.
Either that or I'm running a very odd part kernel ;-)
Regards Roger





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