[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Ionut Biru]

On 02/02/2010 04:29 AM, Ray Kohler wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Steve Holmes<steve.holmes88 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> I'm also having major problems upgrading my system.  Pacman errors out
>> and it tells me I have 77 packages to update and I was current two
>> days ago.  I believe it is 77 and counting.  Last night it was 66.
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>> I'm using the kernel.org site for my packages now.  I used to use
>> easynews but it got out of date for a while so switched.  kernel.org
>> isn't going bad, is it?
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> kernel.org has done me well during this update. There's more than one
> server answering to that name, and not all of them are equally
> up-to-date. Keep at it and you'll get one of the leading ones.

mirrors.kernel.org in fact is not a single mirror. is an alias to a 
geolocation subdomain and from there is serving from closer 
geographically position(in theory).
for you maybe you hit in an up to date server.

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Ionut