Re: Apt & rsync
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Gary Allpike wrote:
> A deb consists of a couple of .tar.gz files by my understanding - why not
> tear the deb apart, and uncompress the tar.gz's and then rsync the
> uncompressed data ??
I've thought about that as well. Clearly it needs server-side support at
the very least, but a more interesting question is how to ensure that gzip
generates exactly the same output - not all .debs may be compressed with
gzip -9 for instance. This is important because we need to ensure that the
file md5 is identical after transfer.
It seems to me there should be some way to deal with that by taking
advantage of how gzip compresses, but I haven't time to really think
about it in detail :<
Jason
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