FC5 T2

[John Summerfied]

Andy Burns wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
>> That
>> way the mirrors are syncing potentially smaller changes between
>> release candidates into the release candidate tree 
> 
> 
> Off at a slight tangent, but it struck me the other day that rsync is 
> probably less efficient at mirroring rawhide *because* the RPMs are 
> compressed, therefore a small change to a package's source will change 
> the binary contents drastically enough to defeat the delta compression, 
> I suppose with xorg being split up that helps, but ooo/tetex/eclipse etc 
>  are still significant chunks. I hardly suppose having an uncompressed 
> form of RPM file would be welcome though ...
> 
I've recently been thinking I could update exploded source trees faster 
than tarballs.

SUSE has patch rpms, but I've not explored the savings they (presumably) 
yield. Someone should tho:-)




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