On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 09:44 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > Why make it so hard, as to put the workload of generating the diffs to > the mirrors? As far as i understand, mirrors use some kind of script > (using rsync?) to copy the contnent of one served resource to their own > disk, and serve it from there. They copy the contnent of a directory > from one server to another, and serve it using a run of the mill > ftp/http-server, hopefully suporting byte-ranges. Absolutely. The problem I was addressing is that people seemed to be coming up with more and more complex schemes (ie breaking rpms into individual files) which could be very difficult to implement without needing a smart server. While we are using 3rd party mirrors to distribute updates we will need to have absolutely minimal requirements on the server to be smart - pure dumb file serving over an existing protocol, maybe leveraging byte ranges as the bleeding edge of requirements. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
