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Frank Griffin wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
>> They are supposed to hit mirrors at the same time; they're released as
>> part of the same advisory. As far as I know, this has worked for all
>> 2008 Spring kernel updates so far. I haven't had any other report of the
>> driver not being updated when the kernel was.
>>  
> There is never a guarantee of this. An ML thread years ago established
> that there was absolutely no correlation between when Mandriva dumps
> stuff onto rsync.mandriva (or whatever it is these days) and when the
> mirrors choose to rsync and pick it up.
> What they pick up in any particular execution of rsync depends on the
> state of the repository directory when rsync determines which files to
> transfer. If this overlaps the updating of the MDV rsync host from
> internal sources, you'll get a partial and inconsistent update.
>
> So, whether Mandriva tries to "schedule" different packages to be in a
> certain "advisory" unit or not, there is no guarantee that all such
> packages will be transmitted as a group.
>

Yep, this is exactly my point. This time we were lucky.

Jan
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