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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> If you are worried about keeping regionally seperate builds in sync,
> you just pick a snap date sufficiently far in the past that it spans
> the propagation delay for the mirroring between you and the master
> repository.

This is exactly the issue.  In reality, building "yesterday's snap" is 
probably adequate,  but yesterday's -current is _history_, man!

8)

mike