handy iso upgrade rsync script

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Nov 2 05:37:19 UTC 2004


On Monday 01 November 2004 03:13, Mike Chambers wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 01:32 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I have the RC3 images sitting in the target local directory, but
>> they don't appear to be getting updated, instead from the
>> appearance of my downloads directory after this has been running
>> for about 10 minutes, it apparently is going to download a fresh
>> copy of everything, but with a serial number appended to the end,
>> and a . (dot) prefixed to the newer filename.  This doesn't strike
>> me as the expected rsync operation.
>
>Are the images the exact same names as the ones your downloading?
>
>--
>Mike Chambers
>Madisonville, KY
>
>"It's always better to hurt a little now, than to hurt a lot later!"

Yup, got it figured out, major drain bamage here.  Its actually making 
a fresh, edited copy of it, and when its done, the old one is nuked 
and the new one is renamed to the original.  Somebody should tell me 
"well, duh!" :-)

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