At Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:16:33 +1000 (EST), Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, ramon buckland wrote: > > > (1.3.0) has a dependancy on wget | rsync. It suggests dpkg-dev as well, > > > > Is the dependency read as wget ||(or) rsync, because I had wget. > > Yeah, that's how it's read. If you've got wget already, then it won't > bother getting rsync. Until debian starts using the rsync-compatible gzip, > rsync doesn't buy you much (if anything) in speed, so wget is pretty much > all you need.
apt-proxy will use rsync to suck down the uncompressed Packages file, and then gzip it client-side - which is a pretty big gain during "apt-get update". unfortunately apt makes it a little hard for apt backends to get the uncompressed file directly (without getting the .gz too). -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
