Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alan Olsen" <> | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:43:44 -0800 | Subject | Re: Linux-2.2.4.. |
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On Mar 23, 8:26pm, Jeff Millar wrote: > Subject: Re: Linux-2.2.4.. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> > To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 5:46 PM > Subject: Linux-2.2.4.. > > > > > > There's a new 2.2.x version out there now. > > Ever since we went to the mirror system, things seem a bit messed up. > > The mirrors don't get a copy of the upload very fast...sometimes it > seems like days. Often the first mirror to get a new kernel isn't > even us.kernel.org > > The links in the mirror page no longer point to the correct > locations, at least for ca.kernel.org and mx.kernel.org > > Maybe Linus should hold off on the announcement until the mirrors have > a change to catch up?...on the existential theory that if a kernel isn't > available is it really "out there"?
Sounds like we need more of an "rdist" process than a "mirror" process. Maybe the master site needs to push the new version out to the host sites instead of waiting for them to catch up. (Or the master site needs to be off-limits to all but the mirroring machines.)
-- Alan Olsen "Carpe Aptenodytes!" alano@ncd.com
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