Re: Debian mirror scripts
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@esaurito.net> writes:
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a
> >> > mystery nobody ever will solve.
> >>
> >> It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load.
> >>
> >> If Debian would provide zsync files a zsync module could be provided
> >> in a matter of days.
> >
> > zsync files for Packages (don't know which suite, though) are available on
> > zsync's homepage and anyway it would be trivial to hack archive scripts to
> > provide .zsync files and/or generate them somewhere like p.d.o
>
> Yes it would. Please convince ftp-master of that.
Better yet, submit a patch!
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