No Frozen Rawhide

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Jul 22 21:24:58 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 15:49 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I think that it will still help with large enough rpms since rsync will
> try to use parts of the files if they match names. (There options to
> try to use files with similar names, but I don't think that is very
> useful for compressed files since they change almost everywhere.)
> The resources used are different though (bandwidth vs random disk IO) so
> it could actually make things worse.

The rpms have compressed payloads, but the changes for gpg sigs are just
in the small header section so it would save some time.

There is a thread going on about this on the mirror list already.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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