[plug] is rsync not good for iso updates because highly compressed - whole image changes if only few updated files?

[Bill Kenworthy]

The last Mandrake triplet saved bout a 1/3 - but a better idea is
something like Troes rsync script - copy the iso to disk and then it
renames and rsyncs the files individually, also makes it easy to not
download the hundreds on megs of foreign language stuff.

Also great over a modem ...

BillK

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 21:22, Daniel wrote:
> Hello All,
> I envisaged rsync for situations like when a beta of a new distribution 
> release comes out and is shortly after superceded.
> I have been told that even if few files are changed the isos are so highly 
> compressed these days that the files appear totally different to rsync and 
> thus the whole file would end up downloaded.  Is this correct, or is it 
> only with some distributions?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Daniel.
> 
> 
> 
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