[WBEL-users] Mirrors out of sync

[John Morris]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Kirby Bohling wrote:

> 	Just accept the requests long enough to point them to server
> with adequate bandwidth (you could probably even round robin them).
> Then all the existing YUM config files would work, without crashing
> your bandwidth.

The version of up2date in FC2 just pulls a list of mirrors and picks one 
at random.  Figure I can serve that one list up from here unless WB gets a 
lot more popular.  Much easier than round robin DNS, etc.

> Wow, how come it's a gig and a half?  I didn't notice that many
> updates had come out.  The joys of doing the right thing and not
> hitting the primary site, ends up meaning I'm behind on security
> updates....  The joys of being a good net citizen.

Well it was made worse because so many packages are replacements for 
previous errata so that older errata was copied over to obsolete-updates 
and there isn't really any way for rsync to know about things like that so 
it set into copying all of that old errata again.  :(

But just the new packages were big enough I had to burn an RPMS and SRPMS 
CD-R to bring them from home to the library server.  U2 wasn't just a 
little tweak, it was a point release in everything except the name.

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