On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:52:45PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > And how does that save bandwide if you have only one computer > > downloading packages? With multiple computers it does, I use apt-proxy > > for this. > Simply because it does the download in a smart way using rsync. First it > downloads the Packages instead of the Packages.gz. Today it was around 130k > instead of the 1.5M, well above 10 times better. Downloading gzipped diffs seems to be around 20k on most days, up to 60k max, which is a further 2 - 6 times better. rsync uses fixed block sizes, so diff will always do significantly better for Debian. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Debian: giving you the power to shoot yourself in each toe individually.'' -- with kudos to Greg Lehey
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