rsync and rawhide

[Bill Nottingham]

Edward Muller (edwardam at interlix.com) said: 
> Perhaps a script could be created that would get a listing of the
> existing contents of rawhide via ftp, then if any newer packages are
> found the old ones are renamed to the new versions and then rsynced.
> 
> Dunno if this would work, just speculating.

It 'works', but it actually does not help that much, due to compressed
payloads and other fun.

Bill