Re: "Lag" or mirrors

["Hall" <dhs erinet com>]

Hah! I have a /public/gnome directory on my PC that as up-to-date, if not
more so, than the official mirrors !

Gregory, do you see this message? If you're using RPMs, he usually has
packages within a day or two of the release of the *.tar.gz files.

Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: Nils Jeppe <nils@jeppe.de>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 1:23 AM
Subject: "Lag" or mirrors


> Hello,
>
> I am really getting a little tired about the fact that mirrors seem to lag
> behind ftp.gnome.org by several days, at best. jimpick.com seems to be the
> best mirror I found, but for example it still has gnumeric-0.19 - why is
> this so?
>
> I have heard that mirror sites do not get private ftp accounts, is this
> correct? If so, this should be changed. Top-notch up-to-date mirrors would
> take a lot of the load off ftp.gnome.org....