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Date:      Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:51:39 -0400
From:      Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        hubs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: public_distfiles update cycle
Message-ID:  <20030717035139.GH24728@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20030716163927.GA12679@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
References:  <20030716163927.GA12679@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:39:28AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:

> Could someone give me a general idea what the public_distfiles update
> cycle looks like?  I dropped something in ~brooks/public_distfiles
> yesterday and I'm wondering when to expect to start showing up.

[ This is my first try at answering this sort of question, if I'm
too far off the mark someone else will correct me. :-]

By observation it seems like things get copied into place on
ftp-master at 20:05 by a cron job, I can't tell if that happens
more often than once a day.  But "into place" means that it is
in the ports/local-distfiles and the ports/ directory is notorious
among the mirror sites for being a hard thing to deal with.  The
well-connected large mirror sites will have it within a day of
it showing up on ftp-master but many of the mirror sites sync the
ports/ directories less frequently than once a day.

So, it should have already started to show up on some sites, it
will take a day or two more before it will be on the majority of
the mirror sites.  We're actively working on trying to make it
at least a little more predictable what sites will have it sooner
versus later.

-- 
						Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |



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