How do I use rsync to update a Debian distro?

Paul King pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Wed May 10 10:39:08 UTC 2006


I just downloaded an ISO which the jigdo-lite script says has 285
missing files. I re-did the download to recover these files (as the
script suggested I do) and saw that nearly all of them were not found on
the remote server. Jigdo appears to suggest that if this happens, it
would mean that these files would have been updated since the local file
list was downloaded, and suggests that I use rsync.

Trouble is, I haven't used rsync before, and would like to know how one
uses it to update a hypothetical ISO file such as
"bad_jigdo_download.iso.tmp" from a server, say:
"ftp://ftp.foo.debian.org/debian" - and can I use just any server, or
should I use the same one I used for jigdo?

Paul King


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