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I read that the mirrors are updated very often.

That is all a function of the local policy at the mirror site.

I update my local "minicpan" on my laptop once a day on basis of a mirror which updates itself 2 to 3 times a day. As a rule of thumb I try to link to a mirror which updates not less than about twice as fast as I update my local repository. That way I am pretty sure to get a reasonable "fresh" copy.

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