On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:29 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:23:13PM +0000, M A Young wrote: > > From what I remember when I looked at this a while ago, if you use rsync > > you need uncompressed rpms on the server and client (or dynamically > > uncompress a file each time) to sync between, and you need to compress the > > rsync communications or else the uncompressed differences may be bigger > > than the rpms anyway. > > No, you only need to start compressing with the rsync zlib patch, > which makes zlib compression rsync-friendly. https://svn.uhulinux.hu/packages/dev/zlib/patches/02-rsync.patch rpm's internal zlib has this, not sure if it's in rawhide zlib though. Paul
