Zsync for ubuntu isos.

[(=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=) -- Fernando]

On Sunday 09 March 2008 01:42:31 John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:24 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
> <ubuntu at bugabundo.net> wrote:
> > Just use rsync:
> >  rsync -zhP rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/hardy-desktop-i386.iso .
> 
> That works. However, when I try to get the alpha-6 release, I get:
> 
> $ rsync rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/releases/hardy/alpha-6/hardy-desktop-i386.iso
> .
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> io.c(454) [receiver=2.6.9]
> 
> Either a bug here, or I am confused. If I am confused, then zsyncs are easier to use :).

Yeah, been seeing that for a few days.
MAIN (cdimage.ubuntu.com) is really heavy loaded, and rsync times out with that lovely and totally CLEAR message.
I guess I should report that as a bug, so that future versions print correct messages to the user.

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