On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:34:43PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:09:39AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > 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. you propose to add 'some' diff files for all files on ftp-master.d.o? With rsync we need only one rsync-checksum file per normal file and all apt's need only download the neededs parts. You get the point? Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Like sex in high school, everyone's talking about Linux, but is anyone doing it?" -- Computer Currents
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