[plug] md5 mismatch

[Jim Householder]

Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, quoth Jim Householder:
> 
> 
>>According to its man page, rsync operates on sets of files rather than
>>looking for differences in copies of a single file.
> 
> 
> The manpage is perhaps not very clear.
> 
> The whole point of rsync over other file copy programs is that it uses
> checksums to only copy changes between almost-identical files, so is great
> for ISO images that perhaps only have a few bytes wrong.
> 
> 
>>So does this mean that I need to mount the offending iso loopback?
> 
> 
> No, just point it at the remote location and the local iso file.
> 
> 
>>And how do I locate rsync mirrors?
> 
> 
> Google finds a few
> 
> planetmirror also has rsync available via rsync.planetmirror.com
> 
> eg:
> 
> rsync -vP rsync.planetmirror.com::mandrake/10.1/iso/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Community-CD1.i586.iso /path/to/local/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Community-CD1.i586.iso
> 
While I can mount the offending iso loopback ok, when I enter the above rsync (with correct local pathname) it starts fetching the whole iso (as a single file I think since the estimated time is nearly 8 hours @ 26KB).

adding --no-whole-file has no effect.

Jim