On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:55:07AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > You won't get much similarity betwen two deb files. You need to extract > > the data.tar.gz and gunzip it produce a diff between that and its > > successor. I don't imagine that that's the sort of functionality you'd > > have in a generic httpable-client-rsync. > > If the deb format was modified so that the gzip used in data.tar.gz > was rsync firendly, you would then have some success. > > I doubt it would be quite as good as unpacking by hand. we don't need modified the deb format! The rsync firendly data.tar.gz is a normal data.tar.gz and is full compatible. We must only use it. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Herr, schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel ... ;-)" "Wozu? es wuerde vermutlich ohnehin die falschen Treffen... ;-)" -- Hannes Birnbacher und Juergen Ilse
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