Re: "Lag" or mirrors

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Ray Clouse wrote:
> > > 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....
> 
> Maybe this is too obvious, but why don't they set it up so the distribution
> site pushes the new stuff out to the mirrors first, instead of the mirrors
> having to pull?

Because the only way that could work is for each mirror to give GNOME an
account on their machine.  Having the mirrors pull is a lot less thorny
security-wise.

-Gleef