Comments on: Widely Varying Update Notifications? http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/11/widely-varying-update-notifications/ A Technology Crow in search of Bright Shiny Objects Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:03:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/11/widely-varying-update-notifications/#comment-51887 Chris Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:36:29 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2144#comment-51887 Good point about the mirrors, Vox. Now for the dumb question: What's a reasonably straight-forward way to change the mirrors being used? Right now it seems to be relying on a fastest mirrors check of some sort. Good point about the mirrors, Vox.

Now for the dumb question: What’s a reasonably straight-forward way to change the mirrors being used? Right now it seems to be relying on a fastest mirrors check of some sort.

]]> By: Vox http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/11/widely-varying-update-notifications/#comment-51835 Vox Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:00:17 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2144#comment-51835 Uhm...remember that mirrors are *not* part of a distro's infraestructure, unless otherwise noted. That means that some mirrors do their mirroring every hour, some every day, some every week...and there's not a thing anybody can do about it :) So...check which mirrors give you what and just change mirrors whenever one of your server's mirror isn't doing a critical update and you find it somewhere else. Yes, it's a PITA, but...free infrastructure is hard to come by :) Uhm…remember that mirrors are *not* part of a distro’s infraestructure, unless otherwise noted.

That means that some mirrors do their mirroring every hour, some every day, some every week…and there’s not a thing anybody can do about it :)

So…check which mirrors give you what and just change mirrors whenever one of your server’s mirror isn’t doing a critical update and you find it somewhere else.

Yes, it’s a PITA, but…free infrastructure is hard to come by :)

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