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Re: apt repository usage



"Brian Eaton" <eaton.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> Do you know whether anyone has ever tried to measure the benefits of
> shipping the patch packages instead of the full packages?  If the
> development effort would only save 5% of the bandwidth on the apt
> repository, it probably isn't worth the effort.
>
> Regards,
> Brian

zsync lacks support to look into the data.tar.gz files of a deb (it
has support for gz files, just not debs). Without that the benefit is
basicaly 0 as gzip files just differ completly.

MfG
        Goswin



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