On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote:
It should put them in the package in the order they came from
readdir(), which will depend on the filesystem. This is normally the
order in which they were created, and should not vary when
rebuilding. As such, sorting the list probably doesn't
Hi,
On 6 Jul 2003, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
2. most of the time you have no old file to rsync against. Only
mirrors will have an old file and they already use rsync.
This is definitely true if you install your system from CD's and then
upgrade it. However, if you keep on upgrading from
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote:
On ext2, as an example, stat()ting or open()ing a directory of 1
files in the order returned by readdir() will be vastly quicker than
in some other sequence (like, say, bytewise lexicographic) due to the
way in which the filesystem looks up
Hi,
From time to time the question arises on different forums whether it is
possible to efficiently use rsync with apt-get. Recently there has been a
thread here on debian-devel and it was also mentioned in Debian Weekly News
June 24th, 2003. However, I only saw different small parts of a huge
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