Le Mardi 7 Janvier 2003 00:42, Leon Brooks a écrit :
> On Tuesday 07 January 2003 05:06 am, Steve Fox wrote:
> > Previously I have bragged to Debian users that urpmi is smarter because
> > it only concerns itself with the packages that are being
> > installed/upgraded.
>
> I'd like to be able to brag that it doesn't download a couple of megabytes
> before considering each update. Given that simply bunging gzipped files
> together works (it all gets unpacked as one file), I'd expect bzip2'ed
> files to do the same thing. Is it possible to get urpmi to (by default, it
> would need an override to combat a corrupted file) download only the
> *differences* between its current and the incoming hdlist file?
>
> Cheers; Leon

Why urpmi should and could do , ftp and http doesn't support this kind of 
feature.
Maybe you can use a protocol which support... hum, let me purpose, hum... 
no...
Ah yes ! Use rsync !! I reduce a lot my bandwith I switched from ftp to rsync!
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon is your friend
If you know other mirror with anonymous rsync availlable, mail me !  
-- 
Linux pour Mac !? Enfin le moyen de transformer
une pomme en véritable ordinateur. - JL.
Olivier Thauvin - http://nanardon.homelinux.org/

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