Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Mon Aug 11 23:07 +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: >> 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. > > Not necessarily... first of all, in the case where we have monolithic > packages, only one package need be updated (although all the kde* > packages seem to be updated in unison) and this is the one with the > significant changes are made. Furthermore, both source and binaries are > compressed within the rpm, which is something guaranteed to confuse > rsync (try compressing a large file, then making a slight edit and > recompressing... diff output should be far more extensive than your edit > would imply). The only thing that rsync helps with is the RPM headers, > which for a package that's a candidate for splitting are generally a > tiny portion of the RPM.
rsync will help with a whole package if nothing changes in the package. Like me and Michael said, the KDE splitting makes that more likely to happen, and it will as long as the compiler doesn't change between two updates.
