Andrew Stribblehill <a.d.stribblehill@durham.ac.uk> wrote: > > Doesn't gzip have a --rsync option, or somesuch? Apparently Andrew > Tridgell (Samba, Rsync) has a patch to do this, but I don't know > whether he passed it onto the gzip maintainers. I like the idea of having plugins for rsync to handle different kinds of data. So the gzip plugin will decompress the data, and the rsync algorithm can work on the decompressed data. Much better. > (Apparently he's working on a --fuzzy flag for matching rsyncs > between, say foo-1.0.deb and foo-1.1.deb. He says it should be > called the --debian flag.) A deb plugin would be better. :) -- Sam Couter | Internet Engineer | http://www.topic.com.au/ sam@topic.com.au | tSA Consulting | OpenPGP key available on key servers OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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