New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrothal at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 2 12:49:31 UTC 2009




--- On Sun, 8/2/09, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> From: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing
> To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Steven M. Parrish" <smparrish at gmail.com>, "Fedora List" <fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 8:23 AM
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 11:53:05PM
> -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
> > Thanks... but I'm currently at the border of a flimsy
> public network
> > (representing may be the norm for most XOs out there)
> and my point was
> > that would be much better if you didn't need to
> download half a Gig to
> > update ~20MB. eg a "vote" for rsync.
> 
> Okay, but while you haven't got rsync, at least use the
> tools
> effectively.  Unfortunately, the md5sums are not
> published, but you can
> compare the sizes, and use "wget --continue" to resume an
> interrupted
> download.
> 
> I'm also remote.

Thanks again... but you see in both cases the files were _fully retrieved_. 
Now if there is a way to verify the downloaded part and retrieve the faulty segment (bitorrent style) would be more useful. 
Maybe a torrent is not a bad idea.

> 
> -- 
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
> 


      




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