On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 01:23 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > Huh, in the old BBS days, when we ran all of the logs, shakedowns and > FIDO NET updates at 3AM, that held us for the next 24 hours via a > satellite dnlink. Are the mirrors file updated daily at a given > specific time? Or, just whenever it happens to happen and propagates > around in like fashion? It's the latter, plus whenever the mirrors are maintained. Apparently it's not all automatic from the source side of things, those who maintain their mirrors do their syncing when they want it done. I don't think my ISP has synced their mirror of the updates since the first lot of updates was released (well, they certainly hadn't when I checked ages ago). One reason why your yum re-gets the file list is that you're not guaranteed to connect to the same mirror for the next update. Yes, it *would* be *good* that if it does use the same mirror, and the file list hasn't changed, that it uses what it's already got. But I've not forced my system to keep on using the same mirrors to see if it already works that way. -- (This box runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
