Am Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:54:34 +0100
schrieb Timm Preetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I think ftp.archlinux.org can be pretty slow sometimes (compared to
> near-by mirrors), so wouldn't it be equally sufficient to just fetch
> the DB-checksum from archlinux.org?

This is not possible cause mirrors sync times are different, so the
result was: newer package versions in the db - but the package file is
not available on users mirror.
(I've had make the same request earlier in a bugtracker thread, without
thinking a bit deeper... ;-)

Regards
        Gerhard

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