A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:29 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> 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.

https://svn.uhulinux.hu/packages/dev/zlib/patches/02-rsync.patch

rpm's internal zlib has this, not sure if it's in rawhide zlib though.

Paul