On Monday 11 August 2003 18:27, Buchan Milne wrote: > Levi Ramsey wrote: > > Another argument in favor of splitting is that it minimizes the > > need to upload a massive package when one small component > > changes... > > Uhh, no, in this case the source packages aren't being split, so an > update to one small component will mean an upload of a lot of small > pacakges, which is actually probably more likely to fail (one package > in 10 not making it can cause problems for the other 9 if it's the > wrong package) , than the upload of one big package.
rsync can take this in account and tranfer less bytes, because if 10 packages are uploaded, but only one is really a new version, the other would only changed by some headers and the changelog. so, this can decrease bandwidth for mirror ( at the cost of having more headers ) -- Micka�l Scherer
