Re: Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

["William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 07:02 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, William L. Maltby wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Both my systems are already up-to-date. I'm just getting the images for
> > backup, new installs and to share via torrent.
> >
> > I saw one poster mention rsync. I would expect the rebuilds had lots of
> > underlying lib changes along with some higher-level code. I suspect
> > rsync wouldn't match a lot.
> 
> More than you think. My local yum RPM repositories mirror rsync on 4.6 
> matched 60% of the existing stuff (exclusive of the ISOs, which I haven't 
> synced yet).  When you are talking gigabytes, that isn't anything to 
> sneeze at.
> 

That's right. I'm surprised so much matched up. I guess that I wasn't
thinking deep enough. A point release would tend to be less radically
changed than a new release.

Good to know.

Thx
-- 
Bill

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