Yes it should, and I must say it is a good idea, but
still it would be nice to have it as part of the
features in rsync.
I have been doing some thinking, and I don't know if
this would be possible at all, since I do not know if
rsync really patches files (anyone knows the inner
workings?) or if it just "completes" partially
downloaded files based on length and checksums.
By the way, for some reason, the emails you post to
the list have your email in the "Reply-to" field
instead of the cooker list email, and when I reply it
gets sent to you instead of to the list. Lately I
haven't been seeing my reply posts show up in the
list, but just realixe this may be the culprit. I
thought the list should re-write the "Reply-to" field
to contain the list email. Why didn't this happened to
your email? Do you have a reply-to address set in your
email client? If, so, could this be a bug on the list
software or am I totally confused?
List maintainers, any ideas?
--- Alwyn Schoeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well another solution could to run a script before
> rsyncing that does
> the following:
> 1) Get a new directory listing from the server.
> 2) Compare it with the current local listing.
> 3) Rename local files that differ only in version
> number, to the same
> version as the remote files.
> 4) Run rsync.
>
> Should work?
>
> > I think it only does that if the filename is the
> same,
> > which means it does nothing for the idea of the
> > original poster; that is, saving download time by
> only
> > transmitting the delta from different releases of
> a
> > package. May be this could be a good idea to
> suggest
> > to maintainers of rsync; I mean having a new
> option
> > that would let you use pattern matching or a file
> list
> > ("equivalents file list" as in "exclusion or
> inclusion
> > file list") to indicate files to be synced, as
> opposed
> > to deleted an redownloaded, for example:
> >
> > gnome-*-*.rpm
> >
> > actually this is a bad example since because I
> used
> > the "*", "gnome-1.0.50-1.i586.rpm" will not only
> match
> > "gnome-1.0.50-2.i586.rpm" but also
> > "gnome-utils-1.0.50-2.i586.rpm", but if you use
> the
> > correct regex (I don't know how to use regex)
> instead
> > of the "*" for the pattern matching, it would work
> > fine.
> >
> > I think, this would be a nice feature to be added
> to
> > rsync.
> >
> > --- Alwyn Schoeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Rsync does the same, am I right?
> > >
> > > Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I was a thinking,
> > > > >
> > > > > How much difference do you think exists
> between
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
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