[CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

[Scott Silva]

on 6-19-2009 10:19 AM MHR spake the following:
> Is anyone else seeing this situation?
> 
> I subscribe to the announce digest, and for the last four or five
> announcements that contained updates to CentOS 5, I've been unable to
> get a successful run of yum update for as much as 24 hours after the
> announcement.  The last time around, I tried at about 5 hours after
> the posting, and yum couldn't see anything.  I ran yum clean all, and
> yum update still couldn't see anything.  In general, if I wait a day,
> the updates load just fine, but that just feels wrong.
> 
> I do have the fastestmirror plugin installed (and priorities).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> mhr
Yes, I see it too. The announcement says in it that the files are being
released to the mirrors, not that they are available to download.

<quote>
The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:
</quote>

 Some of the mirrors take a while to sync, or maybe don't check for updates as
often as others do.

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