> 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.
>
No. It works differently (what has listing to do with downloading a
single file?)
-andrej
