Subject: Re: Rsync server for 1.5x?
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 10/30/2000 20:32:05
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:12:32PM +1100, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> While it would consume a lot of  disk space and CPU time it should
> consume significnatly less network bandwidth.  Someone with two
> different 1.5x releases may want to try an ``rsync -n'' to see how much
> does get transfered.

I'm not sure this would save that much: the dates would be different anyway
(all binaries gets rebuilt) so you would have to do checksums.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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