M A Young wrote:
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.
You would be wrong.
73 de Jeff
