On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM, <centos-announce-request at centos.org> wrote:> Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to > ? ? ? ?centos-announce at centos.org ><snip>> > > Today's Topics: > > ? 1. CESA-2009:1060 Important CentOS 5 i386 pidgin ? ? Update > ? ? ?(Karanbir Singh) > ? 2. CESA-2009:1060 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 pidgin ? Update > ? ? ?(Karanbir Singh) > ? 3. CESA-2009:1061 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 freetype Update > ? ? ?(Karanbir Singh) > ? 4. CESA-2009:1061 Important CentOS 5 i386 freetype ? Update > ? ? ?(Karanbir Singh)Just received the above. Ran yum update: [mhr at mhrichter ~]$ sudo yum update Password: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.cogentcloud.com * updates: mirrors.versaweb.com * extras: mirrors.easynews.com kbs-CentOS-Extras | 951 B 00:00 base | 1.1 kB 00:00 updates | 951 B 00:00 extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update I've noticed this more and more over the last few months, especially since 5.3 came out, and I'm wondering: Are these announcements being sent before the mirrors are getting updated? I know what's involved in releasing and announcing updates and such (done that enough!), so I'm not complaining, but I am curious. The last several of these I had to wait 6-8 hours or more before the updates were yum-able. Of course, it would be nice, from an end-user's perspective, if the updates were available by the time the announcement went out, and ISTR it used to be this way.... Anyway, to the CentOS team: great job of keeping us up-to-date, especially on security issues. This is just a nit, of mine, no worries.... Thanks! mhr
MHR wrote:> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM, <centos-announce-request at centos.org> > I've noticed this more and more over the last few months, especially > since 5.3 came out, and I'm wondering: > > Are these announcements being sent before the mirrors are getting updated?No, they are generated at the moment the packages get pushed to the internal mirrors from where they trickle down do the rest of the mirrors. This is in the announcements: The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090523/c6656652/attachment-0004.sig>
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 18:42 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:> MHR wrote: > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM, <centos-announce-request at centos.org> > > I've noticed this more and more over the last few months, especially > > since 5.3 came out, and I'm wondering: > > > > Are these announcements being sent before the mirrors are getting updated? > > No, they are generated at the moment the packages get pushed to the internal > mirrors from where they trickle down do the rest of the mirrors. > > This is in the announcements: > > The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently > syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) > > Ralph--- I am on the EST 12:49PM Just got the mail. [root at ethans27 ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * updates: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com * base: mirrors.liquidweb.com * extras: mirror.highspeedweb.net * addons: mirrors.arsc.edu updates | 951 B 00:00 primary.xml.gz | 147 kB 00:35 updates 235/235 base | 1.1 kB 00:00 extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 addons | 951 B 00:00 Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package freetype-devel.i386 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated ---> Package freetype.i386 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated ---> Package pidgin.i386 0:2.5.5-3.el5 set to be updated ---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.5.5-3.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution