From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 4 08:35:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA10302 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 08:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA10296 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 08:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA09052; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 08:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608041535.IAA09052@austin.polstra.com> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu, chris@vader.org Subject: Re: Sup failing for sup.freebsd.org Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 08:35:25 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm afraid switching supservers results in everything getting > resupped since time stamps differ from one supserver to another > and I don't want to have another sup storm at the moment. Someone > may correct me if I'm wrong. Yes, you are wrong. The sup mirrors themselves get updated by sup, and sup preserves the time stamps. I switch back and forth between sup.freebsd.org and sup5.freebsd.org all the time, without any problems. > Also there have been too many inponderabilities with supservers > recently so that I remain with freefall. Sup5 has consistently worked well for me. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth