Re: Mirror updates?
ftp/www.ca.debian.org has been going through some changes recently
(try: http://osource.org/), last week I couldn't use them at all, this
week they are back (www.ca.debian.org looks like Debian again and the
ftp.ca.debian.org link in the download pages works).
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman wrote:
> How often are the debian mirrors updated?
>
> I just installed potato a couple days ago, using the
> Canadian pkg mirror at ftp.ca.debian.org. Today, I
> ran apt-get update; apt-get upgrade for the first
> time, and got 0 packages updated. On a hunch, I changed
> my sources.list to point to http.us.debian.org, and
> reran the update/upgrade, and got 29 packages updated.
>
> Is this just an n-day lag between the primary site and
> the mirror, or is ftp.ca.debian.org not being maintained?
> If the former, how big is n? If it's just a couple days,
> I can certainly live with that, but if it's much longer,
> I'll stick to hitting the primary site.
>
> My transfer times are comparable (about 10-14.5 KB/s over
> a 1M ADSL connection, which is pretty poor) between both
> sites, though the US site is more variable -- I suspect
> that's due to the higher load on the US site, since my
> ISP has good connectivity to the US backbone.
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