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  • From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • To: Eric Laberge <demon_lord AT myrealbox.com>
  • Cc: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] rsync update - first draft
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:57:13 -0500 (CDT)

I like this a lot. I've got a test machine I'm going to install this week,
I'll see if I can test this out on it!

Mahalo! ;-)

-casey


On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Eric Laberge wrote:

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> Aloha!
>
> Here is a first draft of the rsync grimoire update. This script is based on
> the CVS url handler, so it currently has at least the same limitations.
>
> Simply put the files attached where they belong, and voilĂ , you can now use
> rsync://SOURCE::MODULE urls!
>
> To use:
> scribe add <grimoire> rsync://<source>::<grimoire>
>
> Things I had to change:
> I used the seemingly unused "url_set_options" function to set a "nocache"
> attribute [see the add() and do_update() functions in 'scribe']. This
> prevents cvs and rsync URLs (updated url_cvs in the attached file) to pack
> the downloaded files, which is a useless waste of time on grimoire updates,
> enough to negate any time benefits for broadband users. This needed
> modifications to scribe which only accepted tar.bz2 archives.
>
> It seems to work, it only needs some testing on your part (and a rsync
> server,
> obviously).
>
> I configured my test server with the grimoire name as the rsync share name.
>
> - --
> Eric Laberge
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