This one time, at band camp, Frans Pop said: > On Friday 05 December 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > as the subject says, we are planning to increase the frequency of > > dinstall[1] runs. Our current plan is to have 4 runs a day, switching > > From the current [07|19]:52 schedule to the new [01|07|13|19]:52 > > schedule. All times are in UTC. > > Please be aware that mirror syncs are known to break new installations > because metadata (checksums) is temporarily inconsistent or because > package lists do not match available packages. > > It's possible this only happens for mirrors that don't use the "right" set > of tools for their updates, but it is a real issue. > > Increasing mirror syncs will increase random installation failures.
This has been largely addressed with rewrites of the sync scripts. Whether or not a given mirror will switch to the new version is a different matter, of course. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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