Karanbir Singh wrote: > This is now normal, but it hasent been like this in the past. Over the > last 8 months the updates for CentOS-5 have come from a mostly automated > system and one of the fallouts is that this system will nominate and > track update state on a few external mirrors before doing the metadata > and announce[1]. This has worked flaw lessley in the past ( only > sometimes when specific mirrors would orphan themselves would users > reall 'see' this ). And ofcourse when we do things like OpenOffice ( > which pushes ~ 3 GB of updates ). <SNIP> Karanbir, Thank you so much for taking the time to write that reply. Reading about the process of pushing out updates gave me a new appreciation for what you and the rest of "the team" does for me "the consumer". Thank you, thank you, thank you, Andy Hull