Actually emerge sync wipesout the entire portage tree and rewrites the whole thing, hence the reason it takes so much longer, whereas emerge rsync compares your portage tree with the current one and only updates it.
-----Original Message----- From: Seth Chandler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about emerge -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 this is correct, but sync is one letter shorter, so i recomend that =) seth On Monday 24 March 2003 02:38, Susie wrote: > My understanding of it from running into where I had to use sync vs > rsync(new portage that unmaked when it shouldn't of at the time). Is > they are the same. Sync is the new command and rsync the old. Here is > what the man page says: > > the rsync without complaint. So I think you can use either or. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+fr+J7TKExlfwaNURAt0SAKCEBkpG9U0jxUZLrne22dm5lBjDqACeJ29h 71M0hM6ld5TRSxQ69oqC5kM= =bsH3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list