Re: Bugs and features

[Ted Zlatanov]

Adrian Phillips <a.phillips@dnmi.no> writes:

> I agree with Mark, a rsync section is unneccesary. BUT, having a
> rsync flag for copy could possibly be interesting for large files
> over slow links. An example, virus pattern files are becoming larger
> and larger, you want to update an updated pattern file to several
> servers over slower links, copy would do a straight copy, but using
> the rsync flag, the copy would make use of rsync's protocol. Note,
> I'm not talking about "running" rsync here, but talking about using
> librsync (if it exists, there has been talk of it on the mailing
> lists at least) on either end so that only the changes would be sent
> over the wire.

This is exactly what I meant to ask for :)

> At any rate, if people want this then I suggest they start writing
> some code :-)

Isn't the cfengine source code on hold until Mark's freed up?  I've
been holding off on that assumption.

Thanks
Ted