On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:09:39AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > hello > > we sould stop this and start after woody again... > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:17:46PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:55:17PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > Sorry, diffs are simply silly! Use rsync with the uncompressed Packages > > > file and diffs aren't necessary. Or use a packer which doesn't hinder > > > rsync from saving (gzip --rsyncable). > > > > This isn't server friendly. > > no. sorry. I must say this: > > We can use rsync on the client site. > -> get a rsync-checksum file (use a fix block size) > -> make the check on the client site and > -> download the file partly per ftp/http > -> make the new file with the old and downloaded parts > > With this the server need only extra rsync-checksum files. IMHO it's better to make just diffs instead of extra rsync-checksum files and then having to download all parts of those files. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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