On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:12:59PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> 
> > There was still a lag of 2 or 3 days between the time that the local
> >mirror had the up to date console-data pointed to in its Packages.gz and
> >the time that the upstream mirror had it.
> >
> I didn't understand the problem. Are you saying that the index on 
> Hamakor was MORE up to date than the upstream mirror?
> 


  What I was trying to say is that I believe that a reference to an up
to date console data package appeared in the upstream Packages.gz about
2 days ago. You did say that investigations are being carried out. 


> 
> > By the way, how come the time stamp of the file is 04-Sep-2003 22:19?
> > 
> >
> Probably time zone differences. ftp.us.debian.org has a timestamp of 
> 04-Sep-2003 14:19.
> 


  So the time stamp of the Packages.gz file reflects the time when the
upstream file was last written, and not when the local machine opened 
it for writing? 
-- 

    Shaul Karl,    shaulk @ actcom . net . il

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