[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > > Except for the Packages file I see no advantage for rsync in the case > of the deb archive. In fact I see a serious advantage for using > http. Pull the Packages files locally and then do all of the system > stats locally. It would seem to be the lightest on the server of the > available options.
1) Automatic deletion of files on the mirror when they disappear upstream. 2) Preservation of hard links and the resulting preservation of disk space. I aggree that rsync's bandwidth-saving-through-binary-diffs feature goes unused. -Brett.
