A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[M A Young]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Paul Nasrat wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:29 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> > No, you only need to start compressing with the rsync zlib patch,
> > which makes zlib compression rsync-friendly.
>
> https://svn.uhulinux.hu/packages/dev/zlib/patches/02-rsync.patch
>
> rpm's internal zlib has this, not sure if it's in rawhide zlib though.

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.

	Michael Young