[CentOS-devel] 5.3´s anaconda src.rpm missing
Farkas Levente
lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Fri Apr 10 19:24:11 UTC 2009
R P Herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Charlie Brady wrote:
>
>>> Just syncing slowly is what I've heard.
>
>> I hope that consideration will be given in future releases
>> to sync the SRPMS before the binaries, do avoid this time
>> skew.
>
> Let's see -- Perhaps one in 200 people USING CentOS binaries,
> use CentOS SRPMs. Next look at the relentless railing and
> carping about 'delays' and 'lateness'. Then look at the
> negligible (or at least minimal) responses to repeated
> requests for donation of additional resources to the project.
>
> SRPMs first is not likely a course likely to serve the largest
> number first, nor cut the pain of having to listen to the the
> larger source of thankless, thoughtless whimpering, I'd say
>
> A person wanting earlier SRPM access probably has to put up
> resources to facilitate such a path (I am aware of Shad Lord's
> recent mirror offer). More bandwidth at the needed points
> [and avoiding fiber cuts] is harder to donate, sadly.
>
> Mirror flap seems to still be a problem as well, probably due
> to some mirrors not syncing against sub-masters properly, but
> rather trying to cross-sync, and so confusing inferior
> unofficial sub-sub-mirrors that have beenm inprovidently
> editted in (based on main IRC channel diagnosis)
>
> I would be thrilled to have a simultaneous coordinated
> release, but the 'leak' of 'patched' torrent instances, and at
> least two mirrors opening the full ISO set before the
> coordinated bit flip date and time, leave rather a bad outlook
> to me as to the ability to make things better through such an
> 'inverted as to demand' approach
>
> My $0.02 .... I'd love to be shown a path to avoid the
> problems on the 5.3 roll-out
it seems i was not clear enough. i ask it because almost all src.rpm are
on the mirror site just anaconda missing so for me it seemed it was
forgotten. that's why i wrote the original mail.
anyway now it's also uploaded:-)
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Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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