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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:04:14PM -0700 or thereabouts, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> One thing that hasn't been proposed, but I feel would probably make a |
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> very good suggestion, would be to increase the update frequency on the |
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> master distfiles mirror that users have access to, assuming it can |
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> handle the load (I assume it has the bandwidth given the proposals for |
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> another patches server near it). |
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> If the patch isn't found in local mirror://gentoo/ servers, they |
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> eventully end up at th master distfiles box, which will have the patch. |
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The master distfile mirror already syncs hourly, so I'm not sure how much |
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extra benefit is gained by moving that to every 30 minutes. The larger |
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issue the fact that not all users have that mirror in their GENTOO_MIRRORS |
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variable. |
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--kurt |
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