[CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Tue Dec 18 15:10:06 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 07:02 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Both my systems are already up-to-date. I'm just getting the images for
> > backup, new installs and to share via torrent.
> >
> > I saw one poster mention rsync. I would expect the rebuilds had lots of
> > underlying lib changes along with some higher-level code. I suspect
> > rsync wouldn't match a lot.
>
> More than you think. My local yum RPM repositories mirror rsync on 4.6
> matched 60% of the existing stuff (exclusive of the ISOs, which I haven't
> synced yet). When you are talking gigabytes, that isn't anything to
> sneeze at.
>
That's right. I'm surprised so much matched up. I guess that I wasn't
thinking deep enough. A point release would tend to be less radically
changed than a new release.
Good to know.
Thx
--
Bill
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