Re: maint.mk: heads-up: ftpmirror urls are not quick to be updated

2009-12-11 Thread Karl Berry
Can mirrors be updated more frequently like every 6 hours, The answer is, basically, no. For starters, we'd have to contact mirror admins and ask them to change. Not easy, or fun. Second, we'd have to push ftp.gnu.org to ibiblio more often, and doing anything with that connection is such a

Re: maint.mk: heads-up: ftpmirror urls are not quick to be updated

2009-12-11 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
Hi Karl, k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > I uploaded coreutils several hours ago, and the > http://ftpmirror.gnu.org... > URL that went into my announcement template still is not yet valid. > > A few hours is not enough. Most mirrors update once a day. This is why usually I

Re: maint.mk: heads-up: ftpmirror urls are not quick to be updated

2009-12-11 Thread Karl Berry
I uploaded coreutils several hours ago, and the http://ftpmirror.gnu.org... URL that went into my announcement template still is not yet valid. A few hours is not enough. Most mirrors update once a day.

maint.mk: heads-up: ftpmirror urls are not quick to be updated

2009-12-11 Thread Jim Meyering
I uploaded coreutils several hours ago, and the http://ftpmirror.gnu.org... URL that went into my announcement template still is not yet valid. At least not for the mirror(s) I've been getting. I manually changed it to the canonical URL. Note that this works fine: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutil