On 10/27/05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > if zsync would be taught to handle .deb files as it does .gz files, and > > You are talking about freaking lot of metadata here, and about changing some > key stuff to get --rsyncable compression. > > I may not understand why most apt metadata in .gz (Packages, Sources, > Contents...) is not made --rsyncable, but I am quite sure the chances of > anyone doing official changes to dpkg to use --rsyncable right now are nil.
--rsyncable does not change the format of the output; it merely tweaks the compressor in such a way that the result _tends_ to be more rsyncable. It can be decompressed in exactly the same way as before.
