<sorry for the crosspost -- just hoping to get this message to the right
person(s)>
I think several people with slow Internet access (and even those with
fast Internet access) would like to find a way to get updated copies of
betas, release candidates, or mandrakefreq isos faster.
Kelley Terry makes a suggestion on what must be done to allow rsync to
be used for that purpose. I'd like to second that suggestion.
(Aside: I'm a newbie to many things including rsync. I've been trying
to use rsync to correct an iso with a bad md5sum -- so far I can't get
it to work. If there is a way to get rsync to do this without following
Kelley's suggestion that would be wonderful. If not, please consider
his suggestion.)
Thanks,
Randy Kramer
Kelley Terry wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2001 10:32 am, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > Is anyone using rsync to update iso images?
> >
> > I'm a newbie, and want to use rsync for things like this, but cannot get
> > it working so far. My most common problem is getting a message like:
> > "unexpected EOF in read_timeout". rsync stops a short time later, the
> > local file has not changed, but is not correct (based on the md5sum).
> >
> > I'm using rsync as root (su'd), and the local file is owned by root with
> > 777 permissions.
>
> rsync won't work on the iso images directly. They need to be the same name
> on the receiving side for starters. I posted a request on the cooker list a
> little while ago with no response. I'll repost it here and maybe enough
> people will show an interest and the people at mandrake might pick up on it.
>
> Just a suggestion here. I only have a 56k dialup connection and I download
> at night. I just finished the 8.0 beta 2 download and now the mirrors
> already have beta 3. The only way my testing or comments (or others in the
> same situation) can be of any use is to have faster access to the betas. If
> some of the mirrors would carry separate rsync modules of each cd (not the
> iso images but the contents of the cd's) the beta versions could be upgraded
> by rsync very quickly. Then all you would need to do is remake the images
> with the correct switches for mkisofs so the md5sums can verify with those of
> the iso images on the servers. This would use more space on the servers but
> normally space isn't an issue compared with the much more expensive internet
> access time which this would save a lot of. Besides saving time more people
> might be willing to try the downloads to give you more testers. How about it?
>
> ps -- This would also work for the upgrade from the beta to the final
> version and if the first beta is pulled from cooker it would also save time
> there .
> --
> "It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!"
> "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"
> Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
