Getting updated (was: Re: [plug] Woody on 7 CDs!? Why?)

[Leon Blackwell]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:48:22AM +0800, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> I thought .gz files and .deb files didn't rsync well, due to their
> compressed nature making minor changes vary wildly? I commented out
> the default rsync lines, and put in http lines. Maybe that's part of
> my problem.

gzip doesn't make for optimal rsync, but at worst it's only ever going
to be 100% of the file size, which is exactly the same as you're
transferring over http, anyway.


> Are there any WAIX (or even Australian) rsync-able servers?

Yes, ftp.wa.au.debian.org is rsyncable.


> As such, on a client I have to apt-get upgrade multiple times to get
> the full listing. It's a mild annoyance manually doing things, but my
> gateway does a cron'ned "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -d -u -y",
> and when the package lists time out, it gives all sorts of errors
> through the rest of the procedure, which end up as CRON messages in my
> inbox.

You might want to tweak your timeout options, as it sounds like it's
just giving up on the download.  A longer timeout may just solve that
problem.


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