On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 01:35, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:58:09PM +0100, John Winters wrote: > > I sell (amongst lots of other things) CDs of Debian Woody and testing > > snapshots of Sarge. Currently it appears that the only way one can > > download the official .jigdo files for unofficial Sarge CDs (!) is by > > means of http from gluck.debian.org. This is inefficient, particularly > > if one wants to keep doing it. Is there any way they could be made > > available by rsync? > > IMHO, rsync is not more efficient for mirroring .jigdo/.template files than > http/ftp, because all the data is gzipped. Some more mirrors for the images > on gluck would still be nice, though.
So they are! Funny, I could have sworn the .template files used to be text. Presumably my fractured imagination. Further suggestion then - could an un-gzipped version be made available by rsync *only*. The changes from week to week can only be small and it would make sense to rsync the differences and re-build the files rather than re-download what can be a very big file. (Some of the later ones from fsn.hu have been 90M for just one (gzipped) .template file.) John -- The Linux Emporium - the source for Linux in the UK See http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ We had a woodhenge here once but it rotted.
