On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:32 -0400, David Boles wrote: > Frank Murphy wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:07 -0400, David Boles wrote: > >> Frank Murphy wrote: > >>> How do you know the correct mirrors for rsync a local repo. > >>> Is it by the biggest bandwidth one chooses, > >>> or just the closest geographically? > >> > >> Closest does not necessarily mean 'fastest'. And not all mirrors support > >> rsync. > >> > > > > I'm looking at the mirrors page, put how to choose? > > > Look at the sites that list rsync and then look at the ones that have the > highest bandwidth. Then read the comments on the far right. > > The FedoraUnity Fedora 9 everything spins are 24 CDs or 4 DVDs. So if that is > what you intend to do you have a lot to download. I still don't understand > why. > > You do understand how rsync works correct? The first time you download > *everything* you will do just that. Download *everything*. And since the > 'everything' folder does not change you will not get anything new from there. > > The only folder that would change for you is the Fedora 9 updates folder.
I'm looking into rsync on the centos list (which I've joined) to get some pointers in case it's a tweaked verison for it. To use maybe excludes if possible for packages that would never be in use here (home-lan). Frank -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
