Michael Scherer wrote: > 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 )
As long as you're using rpmsync :o) (and as long as the compiler hasn't changed)
