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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience
- From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:08:24 +0200
- Message-id: <447C35B8.6030805@xxxxxxx>
Robert Schiele wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:50:16PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> - have the repodata available twice: uncompressed and bzip2 compressed
>> - first download gets the bz2 version
>> - further syncs use rsync to update the repodata
>
> No need to have it twice. If you use gzip you can make gzip to compress the
> data in a way that rsync works pretty well.
I know that. But for the initial download, a bzip2 compressed file
is likely to be much smaller than a gzip compressed file.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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http://www.hailfinger.org/
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:50:16PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> - have the repodata available twice: uncompressed and bzip2 compressed
>> - first download gets the bz2 version
>> - further syncs use rsync to update the repodata
>
> No need to have it twice. If you use gzip you can make gzip to compress the
> data in a way that rsync works pretty well.
I know that. But for the initial download, a bzip2 compressed file
is likely to be much smaller than a gzip compressed file.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/
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