On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 17:57 +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote: > The problem is the rsync block size. To make rsync reuse data > a complete block has to be found in the new rpm. If you have > a rpm with contains lots of small files (like the kernel) that > all are slightly changed (because they contain the version number), > the rsync delta protocol won't help much. I think at one point I experimented with a global search and replace from the old version number to the new. The other way in which this bites is because some versions of cpio insist on having filenames starting with './' while rpm omits that. Or vice versa -- I don't recall. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
