Re: rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> But why at the end of http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz210552/aptrsync.html : >> # Get anything we missed due to failed rsync's. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Mar >> 2002. >> os.system('apt-get update') well, it seems for me this just starts apt-get getting everything all over again, http_proxy or not.

Re: rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> Doing apt-get update just seems to start downloading the Packages.gz >> even though we just rsynced Packages. Tim> It could easily be a bug. Radim> It writes HIT! message there and skip this file, because it is Radim> up-to-date by rsync. Next time I will try with http_proxy unset, because I rec

Re: rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-19 Thread Tim Freeman
From: Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >It seems the simplest solution is to just use >http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz210552/aptrsync.html >But why does he do at the bottom > ># Get anything we missed due to failed rsync's. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Mar 2002. >os.system('apt-get update') ># Used to hav

Re: rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
It seems the simplest solution is to just use http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz210552/aptrsync.html But why does he do at the bottom # Get anything we missed due to failed rsync's. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Mar 2002. os.system('apt-get update') # Used to have a call to apt-cache gencaches here, but I th

Re: rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:17:37PM +1200, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > get the rgzip package into debian. This patch is 100% stable (read > it, it is short). The only problem with it is it can only be used in > 99% of situations, so to avoid unexpected bugs it probably should be > off by default (e.g

Re: rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-17 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 June 2003 17:35, you wrote: > Is there a link to just the changelog so I can see if they added this > before I spend the modem time downloading? http://packages.debian.org > doesn't seem to have links to changelogs, not are they in separ

rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Re: Package Lists and Size, linux.debian.devel Cor> Some of the servers run rsync, which works well for the Packages Cor> file, but does not work for the packages themselves. OK, will putting rsync in one's sources.list as you say below just affect the Packages file fetching, or also the fetchi