On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, David Odin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:00:03AM +0200, Eivind Eriksen wrote:
> > With all the resent talk about rsync vs. others:
> > Would'nt it be better if Software Manager (MandrakeUpdate) based its list
> > updating on rsync? Instead of retreaving the whole (~12MB) file each time,
> > it could only fetch the incremental changes.
> >
> From what I've heard, rsync isn't that good with compressed data, and the
> hdlist are gzipped.
>
And I use it every day and rsyncing hdlist takes less then one minute (at
most) with line at about 20KB/s. That is no more than 1MB and *not* 12MB
in any case.
-andrej
