Re: New APT Version
On 5 Apr 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
>
> > The APT http method supports full pipelining, resume, date checking, and
> > proxy servers. Typically it sends about -1- packet to the remote server
> > that has all the files to fetch in it and then just waits while the remote
> > streams data at it.
> >
> > For those of you with high bandwidth links, I have measured about a ~5%
> > BPS (10k/s!) gain over ftp, and for those of you with high lag the lack of
> > handshaking also dramtically speeds things up.
>
> OK, so is there any such thing as good http mirroring tool that
> preserves symlinks, etc (at least as much info as mirror)? If http is
> substantially better, then it would be nice to use it to maintain
> local mirrors too.
I don't know of one, but you could write one fairly easially. What you do
is fetch the ls-lR.gz file and parse it to understand symlinks and so on,
compare that with your local copy and then fetch all the out of sync
files.
Jason
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