[CentOS] CentOS-announce before mirrors ready?

[JohnS]

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 18:42 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> MHR wrote:
> > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM,  <centos-announce-request at centos.org> 
> > I've noticed this more and more over the last few months, especially
> > since 5.3 came out, and I'm wondering:
> > 
> > Are these announcements being sent before the mirrors are getting updated?
> 
> No, they are generated at the moment the packages get pushed to the internal
> mirrors from where they trickle down do the rest of the mirrors.
> 
> This is in the announcements:
> 
> The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
> syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) 
> 
> Ralph
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I am on the EST 12:49PM Just got the mail.

[root at ethans27 ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * updates: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com
 * base: mirrors.liquidweb.com
 * extras: mirror.highspeedweb.net
 * addons: mirrors.arsc.edu
updates
|  951 B     00:00     
primary.xml.gz
| 147 kB     00:35     
updates                                                        235/235
base
| 1.1 kB     00:00     
extras
| 1.1 kB     00:00     
addons
|  951 B     00:00     
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package freetype-devel.i386 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated
---> Package freetype.i386 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated
---> Package pidgin.i386 0:2.5.5-3.el5 set to be updated
---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.5.5-3.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution