[CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!
Benjamin Franz
snowhare at nihongo.org
Tue Dec 18 15:02:05 UTC 2007
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.
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Benjamin Franz
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