True, it is an checking about server for setting stand alone or AGPS. It will be sync in the next. If you dont use data whith gps, you are transparent to this update.
The gps.conf in my case is fine, I live in Europe, but I believe that without the patch, AGPS does not work and in my case seems to happen on this cm7.1 and CM9. In cm7.2 is much faster for me with data trasmission enabled.
Thanks for your work on this great rom