Hi > On 10/09/2008, Konrad Karl <kk_konrad gmx at> wrote: >> Please provide xdelta patches + mtime info to enable conversion of >> rpm update archives to the new signature which would result to huge >> bandwidth savings (a few MB vs ~6 GB for i386 updates. > > rsync > >> The xdelta patch size is usually a few hundred bytes. > > rsync will do more or less the same thing without requiring > intervention by the admin at the other end of the connection.
* rsync does not work thru proxies (proxy enforced here). * rsync increases load at the server since the files have to be read at the server side in order to determine the small changes to be transmitted. perhaps I can take archive home and rsync from there... Konrad -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
