On Mittwoch 29 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 20:18:56 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > Say, I see here > > > > > > http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 > > > > > > some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start > > > eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... > > > > > > I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really > > > available portage updates? > > > > Portage got updated but the mirror you're using is not synced yet. > > > > And what's the "gentoo-netiquette" in the subject about? > > He read "Do not sync more than once in 24 hours" in the motd and decided > that of course only applied to everyone else, and not to him.... > > Andrew, exercise some patience and wait a day for your mirror to sync. It > can take a day or two or three. Now, if you have a brazillion bucks to > throw at the problem we can pay the mirror sites enough dosh so they can > buy nearly infinite bandwidth and make it much shorter.
waiting a few hours would be enough. Nobody will ban him just because he syncs earlier than 24h after the last one. Only excessive syncing will result in a ban.
