Re: Accessibility of official jigdo files for Sarge

[Conny Brunnkvist <kop@ninzin.net>]

John Winters wrote:
> > IMHO, rsync is not more efficient for mirroring .jigdo/.template files than 
> > http/ftp, because all the data is gzipped. Some more mirrors for the images 
> > on gluck would still be nice, though.
>
>
> So they are!  Funny, I could have sworn the .template files used to be
> text.  Presumably my fractured imagination.
>
> Further suggestion then - could an un-gzipped version be made available
> by rsync *only*.  

Output of "gzip --help" on sid:
gzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
[...]
     --rsyncable   Make rsync-friendly archive

Maybe this feature could be of interest here? I haven't experimented 
with the effects myself yet though.

//conny