[oclug] Debian Updating Using 'Jigdo'

[Jim Little]

Quoting "Michael P. Soulier":

> On 13/06/03 Jim Little did speaketh:
> 
> > I've tried using rsync on ISO's but it doesn't work too well.  I think
> > an internal knowledge of the file structure is necessary to optimize
> > the xfer.
> 
> > Presumably Jigdo has this.  Perhaps this capability could be ported to
> > rsync?
> 
>     Explain "doesn't work too well". I do it all the time, with
> resounding success. 

Well I've tried to update E-smith, Mandrake and Red-Hat ISO's and using
"rsync -avv --stats <remote-location> ." where I've renamed the old
ISO's to match the new ones I've never noticed more than a 2% speedup.
Perhaps I'm using it wrong or have an outdated version.

rsync --version
rsync  version 2.5.4  protocol version 26
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, IPv6,
              64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

Jim