On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:11:00AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > > If the .deb files were compressed using the gzip "--rsyncable" option, > then fetching them with zsync (or rsync) would be considerably more > efficient than straight HTTP transfers. No it wouldn't. Remember that .deb files are never supposed to change. For other files like Packages and Sources this might work indeed. Kurt