[csw-maintainers] Inconsistencies between /packages DB and catalog contents?

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> just wondering: what is the current procedure for releasing packages WRT
> to our mirrors? pidgin 2.6.6 was registered with our packages database
> yesterday. I happily saw this and wanted to update it today, but my
> catalog still carries the old version (2.5.8).
> 
> How can one verify whether there's a problem on our side or on the
> mirrors? The mirror status page [1] tells me, my mirror is up to date,
> but gives a date of 2010-03-22 23:27. Is this for the catalog? Does this
> mean new packages like pidgin were registered in our DB, were announced
> via our new packages feed, but somehow weren't registered in the catalog
> and/or pushed to the mirrors? What's our master mirror btw.?
> 
> Enlightenment appreciated

Adding the missing mirror status URL to the thread.

Sebastian

[1] http://www.canoedissent.org.uk/mirror/status/