Mirror dates

[Zyqwux]

The mirror's of Fedora Core say's it was up some days before it really was released. Why?

Example:

Fedora Core 4: 13 June 2005 - General Availability

At ftp://ftp.port80.se/fedora/core/4/ it says it was last modified 2005-06-07

All mirrors says that.

My theory is that they thought they had to change something but they didn't find anything to change. Is it so? If it is so, damn all mirrors are fast downloading the latest to their FTP/HTTP-server.

[SlowJet]

The dates are meaning less , and so are the trust of the sites.

Index of /linux/core/test/
Name Last Modified Size Type
Parent Directory/ - Directory
0.96/ 2004-Jul-09 12:59:02 - Directory
1.90/ 2004-Apr-22 19:50:51 - Directory
1.91/ 2004-May-14 20:02:24 - Directory
1.92/ 2004-Jul-09 12:59:34 - Directory
2.90/ 2004-Sep-16 08:29:51 - Directory
2.91/ 2004-Nov-05 12:02:54 - Directory
2.92/ 2005-Mar-14 08:52:32 - Directory
3.90/ 2005-Apr-07 17:20:33 - Directory
3.91/ 2005-May-24 06:06:51 - Directory
3.92/ 2005-Jun-18 15:54:52 - Directory
4.90/ 2006-Jan-13 09:01:43 - Directory
4.91/ 2006-Jan-12 12:02:58 - Directory

Index of /linux/core/test/4.91/i386/iso/
Name Last Modified Size Type
Parent Directory/ - Directory
FC5-test2-i386-DVD.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:28:12 2.8G application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:36:44 615.0M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:37:39 615.0M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:38:30 615.0M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:39:23 615.0M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-boot.iso 2006-Jan-12 08:55:31 6.4M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-disc1.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:25:36 616.4M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-disc2.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:26:43 625.6M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-disc3.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:27:32 634.2M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-disc4.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:28:49 637.0M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-disc5.iso 2006-Jan-12 09:29:16 396.2M application/octet-stream
FC5-test2-i386-rescuecd.iso 2006-Jan-12 08:58:47 72.1M application/octet-stream
SHA1SUM 2006-Jan-13 08:02:32 1.0K application/octet-stream

Todays build area

Index of /linux/core/development/i386/
Name Last Modified Size Type
Parent Directory/ - Directory
.~tmp~/ 2006-Jan-17 01:37:57 - Directory
Fedora/ 2006-Jan-17 23:31:01 - Directory
SRPMS/ 2006-Jan-18 04:33:42 - Directory
debug/ 2006-Jan-18 00:48:33 - Directory
images/ 2006-Jan-16 23:31:01 - Directory
isolinux/ 2006-Jan-18 00:48:33 - Directory
repodata/ 2006-Jan-18 00:48:47 - Directory
.discinfo 2006-Jan-15 23:51:17 0.1K application/octet-stream
GPL 2005-Apr-05 11:35:02 17.9K application/octet-stream
README 2005-Oct-06 14:15:45 5.0K application/octet-stream
README-Accessibility 2005-Apr-05 11:35:02 12.3K application/octet-stream
RELEASE-NOTES 2005-Oct-06 14:15:45 40.2K application/octet-stream
RPM-GPG-KEY 2005-Apr-05 11:35:02 1.8K application/octet-stream
RPM-GPG-KEY-beta 2005-Apr-05 11:35:02 1.6K application/octet-stream
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 2005-Apr-05 11:35:02 1.4K application/octet-stream
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide 2005-Apr-05 11:35:02 1.0K application/octet-stream
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test 2005-Apr-05 11:35:02 1.0K application/octet-stream
RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide 2005-Apr-05 11:35:02 1.2K application/octet-stream
autorun 2005-May-26 09:11:45 0.2K application/octet-stream
eula.txt 2005-Apr-05 11:35:02 5.4K text/plain

Today's boot.iso

Index of /linux/core/development/i386/images/
Name Last Modified Size Type
Parent Directory/ - Directory
.~tmp~/ 2006-Jan-17 01:47:43 - Directory
pxeboot/ 2006-Jan-17 23:30:59 - Directory
xen/ 2006-Jan-17 23:30:59 - Directory
README 2006-Jan-15 23:23:19 0.6K application/octet-stream
boot.iso 2006-Jan-15 23:23:34 6.1M application/octet-stream
diskboot.img 2006-Jan-15 23:23:36 8.0M application/octet-stream

Other sites and other data are just as crazy.
Completely unacceptable computer practice.

SJ

[Zyqwux]

But on http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso/ the official site, it says so to.