M A Young wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jeff Johnson wrote:
M A Young wrote:Are you saying this option is turned on for current Fedora/RedHat rpms
You would be wrong.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.
because I made a quick comparison between two FC3 update rpms, which
suggested it wasn't.
This patch https://svn.uhulinux.hu/packages/dev/zlib/patches/02-rsync.patch is in rpm-4.4.1 and on by default.
If the payloads in FC4 are not rsyncable right now, then it's because beehive is using an
older version of rpm ... checking ... yep, current rpm payloads should be rsync ready:
$ rpm -q --qf '%{rpmversion}\n' perl
4.4.1It's early yet, will probably take a while longer to populate a significant number of
packages with rsyncable payloads.
And someone other than me will have to add the "fuzzy" patch (or equivalent) to rsync,
and to document that, indeed, there is a significant win to rsync ready *.rpm payloads.
73 de Jeff
