Re: maint.mk: heads-up: ftpmirror urls are not quick to be updated

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi Karl,


address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     I uploaded coreutils several hours ago, and the 
> http://ftpmirror.gnu.org...
>     URL that went into my announcement template still is not yet valid.
>
> A few hours is not enough.  Most mirrors update once a day.

This is why usually I upload icecat tarballs the day before annonce the
new version.  While for icecat the advantage to distribute its big
tarballs covers this disadvantage (also considering there is not
activity between a release and the next mozilla upstream version); it
can be annoying for projects like coreutils, that few hours after the
release have a bunch of new features and bug fixes :-).

Can mirrors be updated more frequently like every 6 hours, or avoid in
some way to redirect to a mirror that wasn't updated after the requested
file mtime?

Cheers,
Giuseppe