On 2025-01-31 12:28:47, Nelson H. F. Beebe via Dng wrote:
> In support of rsync, I point out that it is often much faster than
> transferring complete files: I use it scores of times a day in
> software testing to propagate changes from a master machine to test
> machines.

Which doesn't matter for packages or ISOs. You get the complete file.
Rsynsc doesn't know about the CONTENTS of package files or ISOs.

> In support of ftp, remember that http and https only provide
> information about what the index.html (or whatever it is called
> locally) file provides.

Again irelevant for package mirrors, the extra info you seek is in the
metadata files.

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