On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 04:49:25AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) cum veritate scripsit: > > > Packages.0 from 28-March is probably the newest and the smallest upgrade > > is problably the diff for one day (209k uncompressed, 50k gzipped). On > > the 28th rsync's download was 130k, today it was less than 100k. I don't > > know why your uncompressed diff is bigger than what rsync says. > > Also note that this is a one-time thing, and can be served > through normal http protocol, or ftp, or whatever. > > rsync requires handholding from the server side. > Which is unlikely to happen for every single server serving > Debian mirror.
no. technical you can move this all to the client and use ftp/http for the download of parts of the files.. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "How hard can it be, it's just an operating system?" -- Linus Torvalds
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