Availability of new packages

[Dr. Diesel]

On 10/15/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Marko Anastasov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm curious how/when do new packages become available to install
> > (from rawhide, as in F8T3)? For instance, new projects announced
> > in the latest rawhide report (20071015) appear unavailable.
>
> They are available but different mirrors have different sync times and
> yum picks a semi random mirror everytime by default and the mirror you
> might hit would have been outdated.
>
> Rahul
>

Is it possible for you to further explain?  Do all of the mirrors pull
directly from RH?  Do they simply rsync to you?  You guys must have
insane amount of available bandwidth!  Can you divulge just how fat
the pipes are?