Strange contents on some ftp mirrors

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> At this very moment, french package mirror has INDEX newer than in
> other mirrors:
>
...
>
> yet it does not have those packages.
>
> How could something like this happen ?

By being examined while a resync was in process: evidently the new
INDEX file had been transferred but that package file (and likely
others) were still in transit or perhaps not even started yet.
Mirroring is not an instantaneous process.