On 20010829 Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, David Odin wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:00:03AM +0200, Eivind Eriksen wrote:
>> > With all the resent talk about rsync vs. others:
>> > Would'nt it be better if Software Manager (MandrakeUpdate) based its list
>> > updating on rsync? Instead of retreaving the whole (~12MB) file each time,
>> > it could only fetch the incremental changes.
>> >
>> From what I've heard, rsync isn't that good with compressed data, and the
>> hdlist are gzipped.
>>
>
>And I use it every day and rsyncing hdlist takes less then one minute (at
>most) with line at about 20KB/s. That is no more than 1MB and *not* 12MB
>in any case.
>
I suppose that rsync uses a listing (just names) to check packages, like good,old
MandrakeUpdate before the mix with rpmdrake.
Could anybody add a check based just on 'ls' (or ftp listing), instead of 12 Mb of
hdlist ?. I found stupid to reload the full listing every night when checking
cooker updates. That is why I use gftp with reverse-date listings...
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