[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > rsync (at least with default block size) is ineffective for compression >> used in RPM. You gain nothing; actually you just incur more overhead due >> to rsync protocol. > > Not true, have you used Ron Stoddens rsync....pl script, > All I can say is that it is almost like magic watching > it update a 2 Meg RPM on 15 seconds on a 56K dialup link. >
Hmm ... my impression was there was no speedup. I probably should test it once more. Where rsync really helps is updating of hdlists. But I assumed RPM is using different compression so it does not play nicely with rsync block checksums. -andrej
