Re: gawk, rsync, mirror

[Jiri Baum <jiri@baum.com.au>]

mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu:
> 
> Hello. I have two questions that I would appreciate some advice on, if
> anyone has time.  I'm running slink with a 2.0.36 kernel.
> 
> [1] I'd like to try `gawk' instead of `mawk' (currently
>     installed). But `mawk' can't be removed by dpkg since basefiles
>     depends on it. Is apt smart enough to handle this situation? That
>     is, if I try to: apt-get install gawk will it do the right thing?

base-files depends on awk
gawk provides awk

(at least in hamm)

So it should do the right thing, yes.

> [2] I'd also like to install a package to help me keep 3
>     directory-systems (a small data-base that I maintain) on 3
>     different machines in sync with one another. I gather that both
>     `rsync' and `mirror' will do this. Is there anyone who can give me
>     a sense of what the pluses and minuses of the two programs are?
>     `Rsync' seems to be much smaller.

Depending on what kind of data it is, CVS might also be nice (though it'll
only really work for text files, not database files).


Jiri
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