On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:01 +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > How well does it work if you pull the rpm header (presumably thats > always needed for an update), build the payload using existing files on > the system (ie from the previous install) via cpio/minigzip, glue the 2 > together and rsync that? Badly. The compressed payload doesn't rsync well -- you have to decompress it if you want rsync to do anything other than just download it all again. There were once some zlib patches which made zlib-compressed stuff slightly more rsync-friendly by deliberately discarding history and inserting sync points in the data stream, but they're not a patch on just rsyncing the _uncompressed_ version. > It does require mirrors to give rsync access - which is probably > pretty wide spread *but* would need the rsync URLs for mirrors to be > made available - you can't just assume that you can do > s/^(f|ht)tp:/rsync:/ Yeah. Even rsync access to the extracted cpio payload shouldn't be entirely impossible. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
