On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 at 11:24AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: >> What if we just keep build directories on sage.math? Then people can >> use rsync to update their binary installations, which is an "intelligent >> binary diff program providing compressed differentials". >> >> So we can just have a directory sagemath.org/SUSE-binary-installation/ >> that is a direct copy of the build directory on the SUSE virtual >> machine. To update, people would just use rsync to update their local >> copy with that directory. > > A compromise between "tarball on a webserver" and "rsync server" is > zsync: http://zsync.moria.org.uk/ > > "zsync is a file transfer program. It allows you to download a file from > a remote server, where you have a copy of an older version of the file > on your computer already. zsync downloads only the new parts of the > file. It uses the same algorithm as rsync. However, where rsync is > designed for synchronising data from one computer to another within an > organisation, zsync is designed for file distribution, with one file on > a server to be distributed to thousands of downloaders." > > It seems like it would work really well, except that it would require > people to keep their old downloads; to efficiently upgrade to, say, > 4.2.1, you would need the tarball from downloading 4.2. > > It seems like a reasonable mix of regular file downloads and rsync. > > Dan
So, I think this is all a great idea! To make it happen though, somebody (not me) has to volunteer to bust their 'arse and make it happen. -- William -- 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
