-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > >> At present we are >> still in the contradictory and unsatisfactory position of > shipping rsync >> with an internal forked zlib but refusing to accept zsync > as a package >> because it does exactly the same thing. > > I hope this would not mean that rsync would be discontinued > in favour of zsync. > > The zsync website states: > > "[W]here rsync is designed for synchronising data from one > computer to another..., zsync is designed for file > distribution, with one file on a server to be distributed to > thousands of downloaders." > > I use rsync every day for exactly its intended purpose, but I > have NO use of the latter function. > > FWIW, there's a project here that intends to replace rsync for all major distro mirrors. I can get more information then. I'll have him discuss here; he can discuss it's capabilities and internals much better than I can. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKr8XwAAoJEKaxavVX4C1XIHcQAOGEugPlMPL+GSN42d19UYbm Hu2ocCf9d4/Axi8wViTmB36g1V1g+huakP4SNi9dkDgqOxIVqmyhnkxt8TdupAWD Wrs6IFG9oAaN79W0QQGXZbbmTSTRe8WU2SYwIWqjQ+c9MExsDi5yNKw3qPWHORlE Y1Xzux1lo0qQ7eDvj5QamcvgaGlLIMZHL8Gx+prVV2KBRz2GZttL+MraGkqfhAor 3EkrZur1Nvpz52hYVpHJJBgIJchVnXiZlbucfdKC2A+0Pc7TckKGG3ZUqS099Omi dz7YMXUebphHxRYDVjqaiNb/bIqE7Qi4FTzO91fDdVzvf3kR8f17zsH2LHdg5bTt lzudkFfZ7UJ1HguQi3zH2yfD0bICJkaqld47nQelZ7DKHNVNcglBHKzuCwIg0xY+ 8FKmZlO6tUsocVeKgjjQiACAKm4+h5ZnFZP+F6OoOeEcAP5TTUjAJ0EPD8zzmLyE kJ2rGQKktAr+MfmTl+CqwvZAMy51m0tPzQC9vUaauTFO6r7egdWHVvdYeBcjw+gJ /pg7+phEmiV6Ghgs2+mCEoVthRSkjAc/2CfPglsQ0Rktk7Zq33wPnsxo9eY0j3Le cerb7i3uwHtwEmr2lfJM8xxBQnJwHRC1V26Hzp1ue0nhBI/UMpwWlGW4shmr2vPp NpVH1wnaSZvkpnrJg3vA =Da7h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
