Eaon wrote:
>
> That seems a wee bit daft. In exactly what way does it save bandwidth to
> have someone download 1 Gig of individual RPMs versus 1 Gig of ISOs? It's
> still 1 Gig.
Users of my troels.rsync3.pl to download Mandrake trees and isos know
that while you cannot change the size of an iso file,
troels.rsymc3.pl permits you to do very selective downloads. For
example, it comes from my web site (see below) arranged not to
download any languages other than English, saving many hundreds of
megabytes.
Another tip: If you are not a developer, you can add:
- *-devel-*
to the rsync exclude list and so avoid downloading all the devel
RPMs, again saving considerable download time and space.
--
Ron. [au]
Kindly note my new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and new web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/
