[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Gaurish Sharma]

Hi Allan,
I am holding the upgrade till now on your advice.



Total Download Size:    679.66 MB
Total Installed Size:   1811.77 MB

Is it safe to Upgrade now?


Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
www.gaurishsharma.com



On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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
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