"Guy T. Rice" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Ron Stodden wrote:
> > I think you would be much better off using rsync than fmirror. Mandrake
> > often updates RPMs without changing the file name (rsync is not fooled).
>
> Neither is fmirror. It fetches new files all the time for me because their
> name and size is identical, but their date has changed.
Yes, fmirror is probably good enough for mirroring RPMs by file name,
size, timestamp. But rsync goes further. It also compares contents by
a clever block-oriented algorithm, and will patch the client file so
that it is the same as the server file, even when the names, timestamps,
and sizes match. As I mentioned, that happened often during the 7.0
beta test.
IMHO, rsync is everything that FTP always should have been <g>.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
