On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 19:01, Martin Costabel wrote: > Marc Boxerman wrote: > > Martin, > > > > I gather from your letter to Christopher that rsync provides more > > reliable access to the updated package descriptions than CVS. Are there > > any other advantages to making the switch to rsync? > > It may be considered an advantage or not, but selfupdate-rsync lets you > keep and update only the package tree that you have activated in your > fink.conf file. In /sw/fink, you don't get "10.2" and "10.2-gcc3.3" and > "10.3" anymore with subdirectories "stable" and "unstable" in each, but > only (for example) "10.3/stable". It is thus faster and less > disk-consuming, but you don't have access to the file discriptions in > the unstable tree if you don't activate it.
OK, having moved from the cvs to rsync update method can I just simply delete the old directory trees under 10.2 and 10.2-gcc3.3 to reclaim some disk space? -- Huw Davies | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the Australia | air, the sky would be painted green" ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
