On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:27:05AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Richard Atterer wrote: > > - getting rid of rsync. rsync is a cool program and works well for > > syncing images between mirrors, but it's not good to use for end > > users because it puts such a high load on the server. (Also, > > corporate firewalls often block the port.) > > i would agree to a certain point - rsync is a great tool for > intermirror stuff.. but it doesn't scale at all well - i believe it > is on the todo list for rsync 3 if/when it gets developed. AIUI there are patent issues once the rsync algorithm is reversed to shift more of the work to the client. Grrr... [If you want, I could dig out the relevant message from my archive of the rsync list; an employee of the company holding the patent stated his own, *unofficial* opinion that reversing the algorithm would definitely violate the patent in their eyes, even though they might not prosecute the violation.] Also, the authors of rsync have been "maintaining" rather than "developing" it for a long time now - no good sign for a V3... > > jigdo by itself cannot generate the image. It's more like a > > post-processing stage: The finished image is fed to jigdo which > > generates the much smaller ".template" file, in which .deb package > > contents are replaced with references to the package (via a > > checksum). Using the template and your local Debian mirror, you > > can recreate the image. > > so the end user runs jigdo and points it at their closest mirror and > it builds the image for em - much like PIK ? Exactly! The way I imagine it, all the end user will ever see is a small app which looks roughly like Netscape's SmartDownload tool. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯
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