On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 09:27, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > 4. (and this is the knockout) rsync support for apt-get is NO > WANTED. rsync uses too much resources (cpu and more relevant IO) on > the server side and a widespread use of rsync for apt-get would choke > the rsync mirrors and do more harm than good.
One way to alleviate this would be to only generate the deltas once on server-side when first requested, then cache them on disk to be served out like any other static file for reconstruction of the new package on the client-side using rsync. I've been thinking for a while about trying to build this into Apt-cacher. Jonathan
