On 5/17/06, David H. Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 17, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > >> What is the advantage of doing updates this way, rather than > >> continuing to use rsync? I would prefer not to open up web sharing > >> on my office mac. > >> > > The primary reason to do so is if you use packages > > > > 1) With versions that aren't available in the binary distribution. > > 2) That aren't available at all in the binary distribution. > > > > This saves you from having to build the same package over and over on > > multiple machines. You can have, say, a G5 building packages that > > are used on a bunch of G4s. > > Dear Alexander, > > Thank you for your reply, but you did not understand my question. I > like the idea of only building packages once. My question is, why not > use rync to continue to update the client from the server? In other > words, why not continue to use > > sudo rsync -avzr -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sw/ /sw/ > > on the client, after > 1) building packages on the server, and > 2) running "fink cleanup" and "fink scanpackages" on the server. > > David Wagner > >
Ah! You can certainly do that. The only space penalty I can think of is that you'll wind up duplicating the source tarballs on the secondary machine where you may not need them. It's also going to be slower than just fetching new .deb archives. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (for now) Help keep AKH in Fink! Go to http://ldx3.psfc.mit.edu/~hansen/ and contribute to the Mini fund. _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
