On Tuesday 05 June 2001 04:14 pm, Ron Stodden pointed out:
> 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:
The requested URL /~ronst/rsync/troels_rsync3.pl was not found on this
server.
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