On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, 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.
And mirrors would like to use rsync even if the rsync algorithm doesn't matter. It is a convenient and well-known tool for mirroring a directory structure, including all the metadata and stuff. /Mattias Wadenstein
