From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 30 16:30: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from tigger.nu.org (spark1.zip.com.au [61.8.19.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548CB152E1 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:29:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vance@nu.org) Received: by tigger.nu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9C1D0380; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:29:18 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:29:18 +1100 From: Christopher Vance To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfile Message-ID: <20000131112918.A72930@nu.org> References: <20000128200417.A68436@nu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@hub.freebsd.org on Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:17:33AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:17:33AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: : > If I have an older distfile, is there any rsync magic I can do to : > reduce traffic? If I've already got 80% of the distfile, it would : > sure be nice to fetch only the changed bits... : : You must be referring to syncing the contents of the distfile, not the : distfile itself (since there is likely to be almost nothing in common : bytewise between compressed .tgz's of one version and another). Actually, I was hoping to rsync the .tgz, .tar.gz, or .zip files. I hadn't checked the zlib algorithms and relevant RFCs enough to know who much difference you'd get in compressed archive for a minor change in the underlying file. I'll believe you that it's nasty, and have to do my fetches unattended overnight... Sigh. -- Christopher Vance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message