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   Carlos E.R. to bad sector   
   Re: Tumbleweed update FTP repos   
   01 Dec 16 20:20:34   
   
   From: robin_listas@invalid.es   
      
   On 2016-12-01 17:22, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 12/01/2016 09:38 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2016-12-01 13:52, bad sector wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> I just ran my TW repo rsync script and launched   
   >>> Yast to do an update. Went fine, Yast faithfully   
   >>> applied about 300 packages. Then I went for an   
   >>> online update, lo and behold ANOTHER 600 packages   
   >>> so I think that my ftp list is incomplete.   
   >>   
   >> TW can do updates fast, and mirrors can't guarantee to be in sync all   
   >> the time.   
   >   
   > On two, sometimes 3 machines I have close to 5 or   
   > 6 TW trial installations in various stages of tweak.   
   > Updating them one at a time on-line is not an option.   
   > Nor am I interesetd in mirroring locally more than   
   > what I need, so instead I just rsync down the given   
   > ftp folders (with file exclusions) to a usb and update   
   > from that.   
      
   Well, then you are excluding too much.   
      
   > A few files worth of out-of-sync is not   
   > the problem, the problem is that some folders I'm not   
   > rsyncing down AT ALL by the looks of things :-(   
      
   Or the mirror you are using to rsync from is outdated.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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