[arch-general] mirrors

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:13:46 -0400
Andrei Thorp <garoth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from David Rosenstrauch's message of Thu Jul 16 11:04:45
> -0400 2009:
> > Anyone know what's up with the mirrors?  Looks like nearly all the
> > US mirrors (RIT, SUU, EasyNews, UMFlint, GaTech, VT - even
> > Schlunix) are running 1-2 days old.  Only mirror that seems to have
> > new packages is Unixheads, and it's *dog slow*.
> 
> Maybe as a result of the SVN transition that's going on just now?
> Should be resolved soon enough, I figure

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Another massive out-of-sync "explosion" of US+EU mirrors.
Seems to be related with huge transfer during the libjpeg update.

So when doing currently a -Syu make sure you use an synced mirror to avoid getting not only the new libjpeg, but also other new packages which depend on libjpeg...
And if you switch a mirror: Don't forget to do a pacman -Syy

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