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Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Wed Jan 28 18:16:52 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Christopher Beland wrote:
> >>>> Something seems broken; we are no longer getting lists of changed
> >>>> packages?
> >>>>
> >>> Possibly preparation for the Alpha release?
> > But I'm still getting RPMs daily via yum.
> 
> Mirrors often lag behind a bit. Yum mirror lookup by default is also
> semi randomized and based on geoip to share bandwidth.

Lag behind for a week? I don't buy that. Besides, every time I saw an
interesting new package in the daily anouncement, I could "yum info" it or
even download it. So mirrors don't lag _that_ much. And I'm thinking yum
does hunt for an up-to-date mirror.
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