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 1MEACb-0000h4-AD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:53:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92348E0387; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:53:55 +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 56738E0387 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so334410ewy.34 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:53:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.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:message-id; bh=+c8tRqjnmrpzotOqpwLkI6dBkIPzMDYUwh6rPVy2V+A=; b=RLXKQ/nRsEBxwSsLhfjDqMcjxh6xS3cRJ5fs6e26J/4eE1eq5mS3x3jQYXndJrZQYv LAYMn0Zyyc5MT3jNenZbdukeX1PW7Z3CIaLDH0vYmjeQm2DlBtpB0+LU5hRc47WYu9nA tfUf8XEi7/sgDaiaGw/JJfxE2YD5uOsXVJReU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=fgYdXFr6pwDVZHZOSWGAgmYrxHCdcHTurnJ6/oeuSgDMmb5Hvpqq7lBEq51QFDgc7M eTpL9NqQJiuDFbuc2C7XRyBlm/mS/0pUd62Z+Urt8NLscz65ID0KBUwM3FHcMYxO2T/u j6ewNmRA56FiHnsv0u5R15Exn7bn/aT16aoG0= Received: by 10.210.42.13 with SMTP id p13mr3268601ebp.31.1244588034579; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:53:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm9129034ewy.6.2009.06.09.15.53.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:53:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:53:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.29.4r4; KDE/4.2.90; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906100017.44675.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200906100035.20204.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906100035.20204.alan.mckinnon@gmail.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 Message-Id: <200906100053.50463.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a33d8454-6b05-44d5-93ba-fc21e21b1f05 X-Archives-Hash: b6e39850ac3eae41d309552abd4e943c 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.