[newbie] Fast Mandrake Downloader - New Release

[Ron Stodden]

This is the first announcement of our fast Mandrake Downloader to the  
Newbie list.       Members of the Expert and Cooker mailing lists have 
been using this for over two years now and it has proved very popular.   
If you want to build local mirrors of all or parts of the Mandrake 
software, English only versions, this is for you.     The speed comes 
from the use of rsync, dropping of non-English RPMs,  and use of an RPM 
renaming trick that makes rsync only download and patch in the changes, 
rather than doing a complete virgin download as ftp and its variants 
would do.    Here is the release announcement:

The troels team is very pleased indeed to announce the availability of a 
new fast Mandrake downloader (English only) - see sig below for the URL.

You may now:

Specify different exclude files for each download tree,

Specify additional options to rsync.  --delete is suggested for all tree 
downloads, and nothing for iso9660 CD image downloads.

Run a number of downloads concurrently providing the destinations do not 
overlap (Caution: overlap not checked for!).   Running a number of 
downloads concurrently makes sense when the source of network 
constriction is distant from you, so that a number of independent 
streams may be established.

Download of the 9.2 trees is provided for when they become available.

Fully supported by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Questions and suggestions welcome.

Have fun!

--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
"If you keep a green bough in your heart, the singing bird will come"
Get Fastest Mandrake downloader, English-only, from:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/       Click all ye faithful!


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