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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