rsync and rawhide
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Oct 17 15:56:05 UTC 2003
Jeremy Portzer (jeremyp at pobox.com) said:
> If the rsync tree was built into ISOs, or some other larger archive
> files that could be loopback-mounted, it would be a better situation for
> rsync. It can then check for differences in the old and new versions
> and only download the differences.
Building rawhide as ISOs would a) complicate the build process b)
make it more of a hassle to grab a single fix.
Adding ISOs in *addition* to the files would lead to a rather dramatic
increase in disk space required.
Bill
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