From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 30 16:53: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id AAC7F15259; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE951CD402; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:53:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:53:04 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Christopher Vance Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfile In-Reply-To: <20000131112918.A72930@nu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Christopher Vance wrote: > 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. If a single bit changes in the uncompressed file, the entire compressed file will be different from that point on. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message