[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Allan McRae]

On 02/02/10 13:01, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:42:32AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I don't know but I've been doing multiple 'pacman -Syuw' and each time
> I seem to be able to download one package and then all the rest fail
> and the response says the file is supposedly not found.  I'll tell
> you, with 83 files to get and only getting one each time, this is the
> worst update experience I've ever had.  It usually goes so smoothly
> but this time around is terrible!

Well, there was a news item saying it would be best to wait a couple of 
days to do an update...  but no-one ever listens to us.

Allan