Re: xdelta patches + mtime info for converting update archives?

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Hi

> On 10/09/2008, Konrad Karl <kk_konrad gmx at> wrote:
>> Please provide xdelta patches + mtime info to enable conversion of
>> rpm update archives to the new signature which would result to huge
>> bandwidth savings (a few MB vs ~6 GB for i386 updates.
>
> rsync
>
>> The xdelta patch size is usually a few hundred bytes.
>
> rsync will do more or less the same thing without requiring
> intervention by the admin at the other end of the connection.

* rsync does not work thru proxies (proxy enforced here). 

* rsync increases load at the server since the files have to be read 
  at the server side in order to determine the small changes to be
  transmitted.

perhaps I can take archive home and rsync from there...

Konrad

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