What I would find really useful is something which also places downloaded packages into a local mirror which can be burned on cd and can also be filled up with rsync, and which uses the local mirror in preference to downloading. It must function without patch descriptions, although they may be used if available. It should run considerably faster than YOU. Handling the kernels, people and supplementary trees would be a real bonus. You are talking about gpd.sh (patch description generator) + fou4s ;-) Although I use wget and not rsync (yet), it is pretty fast. The latest beta (including gpd.sh) can be found at http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/beta/. Gpd.sh should work out of the box for the supplementary tree, just edit the example config file (GpdList=) to select
On Oct 18, Volker Kuhlmann
I admit not having yet tried fou4s. Personally the patch descriptions don't tell me why the patch is there, I already know that ages beforehand by reading the "pending" sections in SuSE's advisories and skimming over bugtraq. Two years ago I would have agreed with you, but now I'm much too busy to remember all this things. The patch descriptions are a very nice bonus from SuSE (I miss this with debian, although I must admit that I haven't digged into this very deep).
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