A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

Chuck R. Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Wed Mar 9 22:29:30 UTC 2005


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:23:13PM +0000, M A Young wrote:
> From what I remember when I looked at this a while ago, if you use rsync
> you need uncompressed rpms on the server and client (or dynamically
> uncompress a file each time) to sync between, and you need to compress the
> rsync communications or else the uncompressed differences may be bigger
> than the rpms anyway.

No, you only need to start compressing with the rsync zlib patch, 
which makes zlib compression rsync-friendly.




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