Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:17:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > > let me guess:
> > > > > South Africa?
> > > >
> > > > Correct first time :-)
> > >
> > > It's not hard to work out ;-)
> > >
> > > >Received: from nazgul.localnet
> > > > (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za
> >
> > Drat. Horrors. Now my secret is out :-)
> >
> > And on a completely different but related topic, herewith a puzzle:
> >
> > How long does it take to sync the brand new Fedora 11 release?
>
> two hours?

5 days, 9 hours, 27 minutes and counting

> > How long should it take?
>
> 1 second?

200G shouldn't take more than a day.

Part of that is a booboo on the Fedora master mirror (content was available, 
it went away, it came back).

That's bandwidth constraints for you. Into Africa it gets even worse. Total 
bandwidth to Kenya is not even 1M. International companies get their mail over 
dialup with fetchmail. And let's not even mention Zimbabwe...



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