xdelta patches + mtime info for converting update archives?

[Bill Crawford]

On 10/09/2008, Konrad Karl <kk_konrad at gmx.at> wrote:
> Please provide xdelta patches + mtime info to enable conversion of
> rpm update archives to the new signature which would result to huge
> bandwidth savings (a few MB vs ~6 GB for i386 updates.

rsync

> The xdelta patch size is usually a few hundred bytes.

rsync will do more or less the same thing without requiring
intervention by the admin at the other end of the connection.

> Konrad
>
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