-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:59, Glenn McGrath wrote: > If we put the Packages file under some sort of version control (e.g. > cvs), bandwidth requirments would be minimised as cvs automatically > takes care of diff's and patching, and i assume the CPU load from cvs > server is a lot better than rsync.
You could use cvsup rather than cvs to reduce load further. But ideally you'd just use rsync and make the gzip using --rysncable... However, given the packages.gz file is much smaller than the total files being downloaded, is it really worth it? Corrin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3C3Ai5A0ZsG8x8cRAiEwAKCHGsT0VUFTIjaCdO5xJWZASNUr4wCdGr1+ tFEWkO4/9+VRpwmpBe3KO7Y= =Vom/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----