On 29/08/2007, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 11:05 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Anyway, concerning your comment, Tim, for a mirror to be up-to-date > > quickly after new updates have been released, it takes a passionate > > mirror-admin. > > I would have thought it to be entirely automatic, so the admin didn't > have to do anything unless a fault occurred. At least for the mirrors > that YUM has lists of. All depends on what kind of mirroring script the mirror-admin uses. How does it deal with a failed download or a download that takes a long time? Does it retry? Or does it wait until the next day? Does it mirror Updates more often than the releases/Everything repo? Is the admin aware of Extras seeing updates almost on a daily basis?
