So, I usually tend to just install releases and use .iso installations, but lately I've been testing Slackware 15rc1, and I will probably test -current in the future.

Purpose is to download the file tree and make an iso from it.

So, my first download was with wget, and it worked. I can't remember exactly, but probably it was just , and I made an iso and all kind of things. It worked fine and all was good. But aftwards I came to think that it might not have been the correct way to do it.

I was thinking I should have used something similar to to get it done currectly. But looking into wget, I could not find appropriate options. So I kind of gave up and moved to rsync instead.

I'm not really an rsync user, but in my evaluation, this seemed like a more proper way to do it.

Can someone shed some light on this, and reasonably argue for their view and for/against some right/wrong ways of doing it? Thanks.

I do not know what the best is but use myself some script made from Alien Bob mirror-slackware-current.sh you will find in his public toolset :
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tools/

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Yeah, rsync from a local mirror is probably best. Been doing it that way for a long time now.

I'd you're paranoid like me, you can grab the checksum file from slackware.com and use that to check your downloaded tree.

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Exactly what I do

If you only need to download the files once and not keep the mirror in sync:

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