30 May
2006
30 May
'06
12:08
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 -- http://www.hailfinger.org/