On Sun, 29 Jan 2005, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jan 29, 2005, "Charles R. Anderson" <cra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Why all the complication when a general-purpose algorithm, rsync, > > already exists to solve this problem? > > It doesn't do very well on compressed files, and there aren't a lot of > rsync-enabled web proxies out there. You may like this RFE: https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=391 gzip has an --rsyncable option that is missing from the python zlib implementation. If python/zlib could be taught this, and createrepo is able to use it, the metadata would be rsyncable (improves transferspeed for repo maintainers/mirrors). -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
