A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Jeff Johnson]

M A Young wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Paul Nasrat wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:29 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
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>>>No, you only need to start compressing with the rsync zlib patch,
>>>which makes zlib compression rsync-friendly.
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>>https://svn.uhulinux.hu/packages/dev/zlib/patches/02-rsync.patch
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>>rpm's internal zlib has this, not sure if it's in rawhide zlib though.
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>That is very interesting - I hadn't seen it before, though I would imagine
>the rpms have to be a bit bigger and the bandwidth increases over the
>minimum possible. I don't think the option is being used on current rpms.
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You would be wrong.

73 de Jeff