At last, some one did this :), Peter can you share those scripts with
us those scripts ???
Mircea C.
Peter Ruskin wrote:
>
> I've been asked not to cc mirrors stuff to the Cooker mailing list but I
> believe there will be some interest in this here.
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>
> Subject: Dumb upgrade policy at uninett.no
> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:34:09 +0000
> From: Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mirrors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I, like many others, get my Mandrake local mirrors using Rod Stodden's
> and Troels Liebe Bentsen's rsync scripts. The main bonus of these
> scripts is the renaming of local mirror files as they get upgraded, prior
> to download. This means that if Mandrale updates foo-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
> to foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm, the local mirror copy is renamed to
> foo-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm and we only download the difference, not the
> complete file.
>
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