On Tuesday 10 April 2001 10:32 am, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Is anyone using rsync to update iso images? For example, updating from
> beta 3 to release candidate 1 by using rsync?
>
> Does it work? Is it efficient?
>
> Can you share the command line that you use?
>
> Which mirror are you using?
>
> 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.
>
> Any hints are welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Randy Kramer
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 .
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