Re: Better repodata performance

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Jan 29, 2005, "Charles R. Anderson" <cra WPI EDU> wrote:

> Why all the complication when a general-purpose algorithm, rsync,
> already exists to solve this problem?

It doesn't do very well on compressed files, and there aren't a lot of
rsync-enabled web proxies out there.

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