On Nov 23, 4:51 pm, Carlos Córdoba <ccordob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's a bit cumbersome to download 400-500 gigs > and uncompress this big tarball every month - two months, especially for > people with old computers, small hard drives and/or who live in developing > countries where internet connections are not too good.
There are several problem, for example, there are different builds for all kinds of linux distributions and systems. It's hard enough to do the binaries, even harder to rip this apart into smaller parts for differential updates. One "easy" possibility would be to untar the older and the newer binary distribution, do a binary diff across all files - which has to be some intelligent diff program - and provide the compressed differentials. I don't know if this would be of any help or how good it will work in practice. But: First, it's megabytes, not gigabites :) and secondly, i want to emphasize that i provide metalinks for all binaries. They enable you to download only parts day by day by resuming the download, select the best mirror for you, and check the downloaded data for errors and corrects them if there are some. You just need some client like aria2 for linux, give it a try! H -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
