Re: [newbie] dalziel-1.2

2004-02-21 Thread Ron Stodden
Ron Stodden wrote:
News: dalziel is entering its third week of release, without any 
unresolved issues or complaints.

Those who have filled the box reqesting change notification by email on 
the dalziel web page should by now have been notified of the recent 
minor updates.

Others are reminded that dalziel will save you a lot of time and space 
in downloading Mandrake if you are only interested in an English version.
For a download of the 9.2 tree, dalziel reduces the download volume by 
774,709,024 bytes.

For a download of the cooker tree, dalziel reduces the download volume 
by 886,848,345 bytes.

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Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] dalziel-1.2 Mandrake English downloader.
http://members.optushome.com.au/ronst/   Make sure you complete the
changes notification box!   Last changed: 2004 02 18 08 00 UTC.
'Dalziel' is pronounced 'DL', like 'd/l' for 'download'.

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[newbie] dalziel-1.2

2004-02-19 Thread Ron Stodden
News: dalziel is entering its third week of release, without any 
unresolved issues or complaints.

Those who have filled the box reqesting change notification by email on 
the dalziel web page should by now have been notified of the recent 
minor updates.

Others are reminded that dalziel will save you a lot of time and space 
in downloading Mandrake if you are only interested in an English version.

So try it out!See the signature on this message for how.

Further information and all support is by direct email.These 
Mandrake lists are no longer monitored for dalziel support questions.

Ron Stodden wrote:

 dalziel-1.2 is the current preferred and fastest method available for 
downloading the Mandrake trees for English installation.Non-English 
files and RPMs are not downloaded, saving considerable time and space, 
which is particularly important for those of you on modem connections.

 dalziel-1.2 now includes fully reconcilable file counts, and logs all 
exclusion decisions, what file or RPM was not downloaded and exactly
 why, in an exclusions.log.

 It also logs the decision made for each pair of local and remote 
files as to whether to download the remote, rename the local to the name 
of the remote and download the remote (thus taking advantage of rsync's 
ability to patch in place rather than completely download), and what 
kind of match there is and what to do about it.

 It will now tell you quickly whether or not there is any downloading 
needs to be done.   If not, it will save considerable time by not making 
the main rsync call.

 This will interest the many current users of rsync-plus, who should 
upgrade, but the layout of the local repository has changed to conform 
with the present layout of the best mirrors.The documentation tells 
you how to easily convert your present repository to the new structure.

 How to obtain dalziel-1.2? See the signature below on this message.

--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] dalziel-1.2 Mandrake English downloader.
http://members.optushome.com.au/ronst/   Make sure you complete the
changes notification box!   Last changed: 2004 02 18 08 00 UTC.
'Dalziel' is pronounced 'DL', like 'd/l' for 'download'.

Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com


[newbie] dalziel-1.2

2004-02-12 Thread Johan
Hi,
I am a standalone user that does not have practice on networks.
I googled but there don't seem to be any good howto out there.
I would like to understand the workings and learn by it.
Please anybody on this list familiar with dalziel or rsync-plus that could possibly 
change this to be effective on

ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ with 
../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz

*
Dalziel script..

#!/usr/bin/pl -q -t mandrake_updates_9_2_RPMs -f

mandrake_updates_9_2_RPMs:-
  [prolog/mandrake_load],
  mandrake_load,
  mandrake('mandrake_updates_9_2_RPMs','rsync_exclude','--delete',
'rsync://ftp.sunet.se:873/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/',
'/mnt/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/').
***
Thanks
-- 
Johan
Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning
May this be a good day for learning

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[newbie] dalziel-1.2 is now available

2004-02-07 Thread Ron Stodden
dalziel-1.2 is the current preferred and fastest method available for
downloading the Mandrake trees for English installation.Non-English
files and RPMs are not downloaded, saving considerable time and space,
which is particularly important for those of you on modem connections.
dalziel-1.2 now includes fully reconcilable file counts, and logs all
exclusion decisions, what file or RPM was not downloaded and exactly
why, in an exclusions.log.
It also logs the decision made for each pair of local and remote files
as to whether to download the remote, rename the local to the name of
the remote and download the remote (thus taking advantage of rsync's
ability to patch in place rather than completely download), and what
kind of match there is and what to do about it.
It will now tell you quickly whether or not there is any downloading
needs to be done.   If not, it will save considerable time by not making
the main rsync call.
This will interest the many current users of rsync-plus, who should
upgrade, but the layout of the local repository has changed to conform
with the present layout of the best mirrors.The documentation tells
you how to easily convert your present repository to the new structure.
How to obtain dalziel-1.2? See the signature below on this message.

-
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
Use the new dalziel-1.2 Mandrake English downloader - more features than
rsync-plus.
Download from: http://members.optushome.com.au/ronst/
Hint: the name 'Dalziel' is pronounced 'DL', like the 'd/l' abbreviation
for 'download'.


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