Re: apt-get update via rsync

2002-04-23 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:45:44PM -0500, Daniel DiPaolo wrote: > There was a good thread on the issues with rsync and Debian on > debian-devel earlier this month. Check it out here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg00964.html Very informative and enlightening

Re: apt-get update via rsync

2002-04-22 Thread Daniel DiPaolo
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 07:51, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > Hello, > > I apt-get update daily via a dial-up line. I noticed that rsyncing an > uncompressed Packages file is up to 10x faster than getting the whole > compressed one. Using > > rsync -Plptv > ftp.uk.debian.org::debian/dists/unstable/mai

Re: apt-get update via rsync

2002-04-22 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hello, it isn't exactly what you want, but you can install apt-proxy, which uses rsync to get the archives from the "backend" (=debian mirrors) and then apt-get update from your local apt-proxy source - look at the apt-proxy documentation for more info. There's only one caveat: I recommend y

apt-get update via rsync

2002-04-22 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, I apt-get update daily via a dial-up line. I noticed that rsyncing an uncompressed Packages file is up to 10x faster than getting the whole compressed one. Using rsync -Plptv ftp.uk.debian.org::debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dis