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Re: Using Debian GNU/Linux as base for commercial linux




On 18 Aug 1998, Rob Browning wrote:

> Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:
> 
> > For mirroring, you can use mirror, fmirror, wget or rsync.  I prefer rsync, 
> > but there are not as many rsync servers as HTTP of FTP servers.
> 
> Are the rsync mirrors listed anywhere and are they public?  I'd like
> to switch, but I haven't figured out where to find a public server.

Have I missed the point of rsync?

Nearly all files I pull from the mirrors are crunched - either *deb or *z.
Now changing even 1 byte at the beginning of a file and then recrunching
results in a file which has nothing in common with the original crunched
file.  At least that is my understanding and it seems to be supported by 
the results I get in practice.  I used rsync to change linux-2.0.33 to
34 and it downloaded the whole 6.8 megs.

So what does rsync buy me?

Lindsay

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