Re: Very cool feature request
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, strobe wrote:
> It would be *great* if apt used rsync to update packages from old to new.
> This would considerably lower bandwidth requirements, especially for large
> packages which have small changes (which happens to ve VERY often). A user
There are a great many reasons why this doesn't work - mostly because
small changes result in big binary diffs of .debs. Plus the fact that
rsync is not scalable....
Read some of the mailing list archives, there has been discussion on the
matter.
Jason
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