public_distfiles update cycle

[Ken Smith]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:39:28AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:

> Could someone give me a general idea what the public_distfiles update
> cycle looks like?  I dropped something in ~brooks/public_distfiles
> yesterday and I'm wondering when to expect to start showing up.

[ This is my first try at answering this sort of question, if I'm
too far off the mark someone else will correct me. :-]

By observation it seems like things get copied into place on
ftp-master at 20:05 by a cron job, I can't tell if that happens
more often than once a day.  But "into place" means that it is
in the ports/local-distfiles and the ports/ directory is notorious
among the mirror sites for being a hard thing to deal with.  The
well-connected large mirror sites will have it within a day of
it showing up on ftp-master but many of the mirror sites sync the
ports/ directories less frequently than once a day.

So, it should have already started to show up on some sites, it
will take a day or two more before it will be on the majority of
the mirror sites.  We're actively working on trying to make it
at least a little more predictable what sites will have it sooner
versus later.

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