On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Paul Nasrat wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:29 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson wrote: > > 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. That is very interesting - I hadn't seen it before, though I would imagine the rpms have to be a bit bigger and the bandwidth increases over the minimum possible. I don't think the option is being used on current rpms. Michael Young