Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. Peter Poeml wrote:
> Hello Sid,
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:00:32PM +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
> > Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > _after_
> > > the factory tree is synced out. It would take _even_ longer to get to a new
> > > factory snapshot being online.
>
> > Out of sync mirrors do cause problems, zypper dup will throw up lots of
> > conflicts one day and be largely fine next day when the full synch is
> > completed. The list could be informed of when synch is about to happen
>
> Which mirror(s) do you regularly use? Did you also try to access
> download.opensuse.org directly?
>
> The latter should help you to avoid the need to wait for an up to date
> mirror. Does that work for you? Please let me know if not.
That's the one I normally used. Recently I had to switch to 
ftp-1.gwdg.de. I would guess that download.opensuse.org was in update 
and gwdg.de was up to date with the last synch.

> > and when the mirrors are likely to be fully synched - confusing things
> > happen when the synch is in progress. Emperically I observe that
> > Saturday is a bad day to update, Tuesdays usually OK.
> > Regards
> > Sid.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

Regards
Sid.
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