Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:29:18 +1100 From: Christopher Vance <vance@nu.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfile Message-ID: <20000131112918.A72930@nu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001300113180.43238-100000@hub.freebsd.org>; from kris@hub.freebsd.org on Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:17:33AM -0800 References: <20000128200417.A68436@nu.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001300113180.43238-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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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
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