I've found out some interesting things about this... On Monday 24 February 2003 6:03 pm, Tom Emerson wrote:
I've just finished installing ... I'm thinking of making it a source for future installs. ... I'm thinking I should also mirror the YOU site... I wonder if I were to place the "update" files from the YOU server in the same location as they were originally on the CD, would the "installation" process automatically install the latest version
It turns out the "-n" flag when given to rsync does everything but the actual file transfer, i.e., it shows you what it is going to do. I did this expecting to "pick up" the handful of files that didn't copy correctly from the CD's, but I didn't expect what I found -- according to rsynch, there are nearly 3gb of files that have to be "updated" At first, I thought that "ok, maybe the directory structure is different", so that it ends up deleting a file in location "a" only to download it to location "b", so I took a closer look at what it was going "todo": dave:~ # grep xmms-plug todo_8.1 deleting suse/nosrc/xmms-plugins-1.2.7-112.nosrc.rpm deleting suse/i586/xmms-plugins-1.2.7-112.i586.rpm suse/i586/xmms-plugins-1.2.7-131.i586.rpm suse/nosrc/xmms-plugins-1.2.7-131.nosrc.rpm ok, the file is actually in the same location, but look at this: on the CD, I have version 1.2.7-112, yet the website shows the version as 1.2.7-131! Furthermore, the "YOU" directory does NOT contain this "update" -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net