On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:21:17PM -0400, David Walser wrote: > If you're using straight rsync, or even worse, an FTP mirroring > program, you should be using rpmsync, which is now packaged and in > contrib. It'll save you, and the server you're mirroring from, lots > of bandwidth.
Not really accurate. Since the rpm archive is compressed with gzip and to my knowledge we do not have the rysncable patch in our gzip (nor does rpm use it) the only data which can be saved from being downloaded is the headers which are not compressed and do not always change much between versions. However the headers by far are the smaller part of the package. This document by the rsync author (which happens to talk about Debian but the same issues apply to rpms and Mandrake) covers the issues nicely: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/rsync-and-debian/rsync-and-debian.html In short the solution to this problem goes far beyond having a system to rename the files so rsync will resume the transfer... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche
