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

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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

sweet. That is even worse than I imagined.


> > 1 second?
>
> 200G shouldn't take more than a day.
>

I was joking, but yeah, more than a day starts to stink.  Small pipes and bad 
upstream are no a loveable, cuddly cute situation.

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

sounds like real fun ... the fun you wish your enemy to have.
>
> 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.

that is indeed horrible. Nobody should be forced to use fetchmail.

> And let's not even mention Zimbabwe...

I am surprised that Zimbabwe still exists to be honest. But for some reason 
that trainwreck still jerks around. Just like a headless chicken.