From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ME9w8-00079f-FF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:36:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB2D4E0345; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807DCE0345 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so324543ewy.34 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:36:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=OzuCUOva1GeS+I8vzDiET3WqF4hsIPQlIG2EGQMKr1A=; b=BfLS074Q1rKwe3xPcbrF4k6oa1gzqlheX+lR/z1H73PXBC66Hk6UNc1WSpo7G4P0ha WgdXADguqN0XbCAlLa8yiT0matk8sPGottBBhjD705C1uLbCJCS2LTiVeuYucXdSziBo TlUBxT1++K44SfV7YXJFd1gS9ffNoG7l2mhB0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=pn71+QHZMEQJ4x3Ubr0VtypMwUhlZrPQPGtG9ZHv+DFBYabJwbgrH79muuOC23nCUO 7qN8nj14ie1TSqJK00U0ZkR3snmJY9/yQlQQnfGOtjcLwT7OYfsdSvHG0x0eshIzoSQ6 Y9k8zB2qDgxvI+A07RPPZmiO2rVMQG9TIyMro= Received: by 10.210.51.10 with SMTP id y10mr253539eby.76.1244587013923; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm421251eyx.43.2009.06.09.15.36.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:36:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:35:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906100010.09976.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200906100017.44675.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906100017.44675.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906100035.20204.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4d09e952-da8a-467f-9d64-12c7aed38698 X-Archives-Hash: 359150ac37ea680693883caf65a50d55 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... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com