All users of all_rsync.pl:
The chaos on the primary Mandrake cooker tree server has now been
rectified by MandrakeSoft.
You should now undo the patch below to reactivate the RPM upnaming
trick to reduce your download time.
Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> As a temporary solution for users of my all_rsync.pl script for
> downloading the mandrake trees, please do the following:
>
> Line 99 is:
>
> renamefiles("$rpm_address_remote", "$rpm_address_local");
>
> Change this to:
>
> # renamefiles("$rpm_address_remote", "$rpm_address_local");
>
> This will defeat the pre-rsync file renaming. The script then
> reverts to a straight rsync operation for each tree. This works
> better under the current server circumstances.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
