Re: [Cooker] Beta2 ISOs: followup

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 23-May-00 by Fernando Perez:
| 
| won't it work to have in the /iso directory something like
| hydrogen-beta-current.iso which is in fact just a symlink to the real file,
| and which gets updated as new beta versions are introduced to point to the
| most up to date one? This would provide a constant name for remote rsync
| users, while still allowing the Mandrake folks to keep an archive of each
| beta version explicitly available. And it wouldn't cost any more in space,
| since it's just a link. This sounds painfully obvious so maybe there's a good
| reason why it doesn't work and I just don't see it (I don't have much
| experience with rsync).

Most people who use rsync use the -av options.  This would preserve
symlinks  They would likely need to drop the -a and specify the
filename to avoid a full download.    (That works for me locally, but
I haven't tried by remote).

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