RE: [Cooker] Software Manager and rsync?
> > What about HTTP-AUTH? I need to authenticate when going online - for > billing stuff. In my browser, I'm prompted for username/password. > I guess, no. At least nothing in manuals. -andrej
RE: [Cooker] Software Manager and rsync?
> On 20010829 Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > >On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, David Odin wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:00:03AM +0200, Eivind Eriksen wrote: > >> > With all the resent talk about rsync vs. others: > >> > Would'nt it be better if Software Manager (MandrakeUpdate) based its > list > >> > updating on rsync? Instead of retreaving the whole (~12MB) file each > time, > >> > it could only fetch the incremental changes. > >> > > >> From what I've heard, rsync isn't that good with compressed data, and > the > >> hdlist are gzipped. > >> > > > >And I use it every day and rsyncing hdlist takes less then one minute (at > >most) with line at about 20KB/s. That is no more than 1MB and *not* 12MB > >in any case. > > > > I suppose that rsync uses a listing (just names) to check packages, like > good,old > MandrakeUpdate before the mix with rpmdrake. > No. It works differently (what has listing to do with downloading a single file?) -andrej
Re: [Cooker] Software Manager and rsync?
On 20010829 Borsenkow Andrej wrote: >On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, David Odin wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:00:03AM +0200, Eivind Eriksen wrote: >> > With all the resent talk about rsync vs. others: >> > Would'nt it be better if Software Manager (MandrakeUpdate) based its list >> > updating on rsync? Instead of retreaving the whole (~12MB) file each time, >> > it could only fetch the incremental changes. >> > >> From what I've heard, rsync isn't that good with compressed data, and the >> hdlist are gzipped. >> > >And I use it every day and rsyncing hdlist takes less then one minute (at >most) with line at about 20KB/s. That is no more than 1MB and *not* 12MB >in any case. > I suppose that rsync uses a listing (just names) to check packages, like good,old MandrakeUpdate before the mix with rpmdrake. Could anybody add a check based just on 'ls' (or ftp listing), instead of 12 Mb of hdlist ?. I found stupid to reload the full listing every night when checking cooker updates. That is why I use gftp with reverse-date listings... -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.9-ac3 #1 SMP Tue Aug 28 01:27:23 CEST 2001 i686
RE: [Cooker] Software Manager and rsync?
> > Yep, I was about to post the same but forgot. Not as exclusive choice of > > course but as option. > > Right. Not exclusive! ftp or at least http works about everywhere thru > every firewall. But rsync? Yes, at home I use rsync whenever possible > - but at work I wouldn't be able to use rsync, thanks to the firewall. > 1. runsocks rsync ... needs SOCKS proxy of course 2. export RSYNC_PROXY=: as long as proxy does not block CONNECT to non-437 ports (which is paranoid) it works like a charm. How do you think I use rsync? :-) -andrej
Re: [Cooker] Software Manager and rsync?
So sprach »Borsenkow Andrej« am 2001-08-29 um 11:12:33 +0400 : > Yep, I was about to post the same but forgot. Not as exclusive choice of > course but as option. Right. Not exclusive! ftp or at least http works about everywhere thru every firewall. But rsync? Yes, at home I use rsync whenever possible - but at work I wouldn't be able to use rsync, thanks to the firewall. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 17 hours 9 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Software Manager and rsync?
David Odin wrote: > From what I've heard, rsync isn't that good with compressed data, and the > hdlist are gzipped. Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (in a different thread) "The most notable case is hdlists; with lftp you get 15MB every time, with rsycn you get several KB (well, in order of magnitude :-). " That would seem to indicate that rsync handles compressed data well enough. Randy Kramer
Re: [Cooker] Software Manager and rsync?
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, David Odin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:00:03AM +0200, Eivind Eriksen wrote: > > With all the resent talk about rsync vs. others: > > Would'nt it be better if Software Manager (MandrakeUpdate) based its list > > updating on rsync? Instead of retreaving the whole (~12MB) file each time, > > it could only fetch the incremental changes. > > > From what I've heard, rsync isn't that good with compressed data, and the > hdlist are gzipped. > And I use it every day and rsyncing hdlist takes less then one minute (at most) with line at about 20KB/s. That is no more than 1MB and *not* 12MB in any case. -andrej
RE: [Cooker] Software Manager and rsync?
> > With all the resent talk about rsync vs. others: > Would'nt it be better if Software Manager (MandrakeUpdate) based its list > updating on rsync? Instead of retreaving the whole (~12MB) file each time, > it could only fetch the incremental changes. > Yep, I was about to post the same but forgot. Not as exclusive choice of course but as option. -andrej
Re: [Cooker] Software Manager and rsync?
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:00:03AM +0200, Eivind Eriksen wrote: > With all the resent talk about rsync vs. others: > Would'nt it be better if Software Manager (MandrakeUpdate) based its list > updating on rsync? Instead of retreaving the whole (~12MB) file each time, > it could only fetch the incremental changes. > From what I've heard, rsync isn't that good with compressed data, and the hdlist are gzipped. DindinX -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
