[WBEL-users] Mirrors out of sync

[Milan Keršláger]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:36:35PM -0500, Kirby Bohling wrote:
> 
> rsync://mirrors.esat.net/ftp/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/
> rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/whitebox/
> 
> These also don't have the same sets of files.  It appears that
> ncsu.edu has 3 SRPMS that the other doesn't have.
> 
> The last file in the i386 directory on either mirror is from April.
> 
> Whom do I pester when I see this happen.  This is the second or
> third time I've seen the mirrors multiple days out of date, in the
> last 45-60 days.  Which is very discouraging.   At least this time,
> it isn't breaking YUM completely like it did last time.
> 
> I do appreciate all the time and effort the people behind the
> mirrors are providing to me for essentially free.  I'll happily
> submit diffs the the download page to make it like what I requested
> above.

I sended a mail to NCSU's admins and this is the reply:

----- Forwarded message from The Help Desk <help@ncsu.edu> -----

From: The Help Desk <help@ncsu.edu>
To: milan.kerslager@pslib.cz
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:55:39 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Call 633988: mirror.physics.ncsu.edu is out of sync for
WHiteBox and CentOS

This is due to the release of Fedora Core 2 and the slowness of the main
WBEL mirror. It should hopefully be done syncing in the next few hours.

Elliot

----- End forwarded message -----

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