LiveCD test image available, please test

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:21:31PM -0400, volvoguy wrote:
> Quick question, mostly on-topic. :-)
> 
> I've been using rsync for some of the other ISO images, and it works
> great. For this type of image with a date in it, is rsync still
> appropriate?

rsync isn't very effective for the live CD, unfortunately. Unlike the
install CD, which consists of lots of small compressed pieces, the live
CD is mostly one enormous compressed blob. Apparently rsync only gets
you a few percent here.

> How would it be used? Does rsync care what the filename is if you're
> telling it to update imageone.iso with the contents of imagetwo.iso?

You need to say 'rsync host::path/to/imagetwo.iso imageone.iso'.
Otherwise, no, it doesn't care.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]