Re: Change .deb to improve rsync

2001-11-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Andreassen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011120 04:01]: > > Hi, > > I've noticed that the .deb files are archives of tar.gz files. This isn't a > good format to maximise rsync's performance. If we changed to zip or > similar, in which individual files are compressed separately, rsync will > find

Re: Change .deb to improve rsync

2001-11-20 Thread Richard Hector
Paul Andreassen wrote: > > Hi, > > I've noticed that the .deb files are archives of tar.gz files. This isn't a > good format to maximise rsync's performance. If we changed to zip or > similar, in which individual files are compressed separately, rsync will > find more similarities in different

Change .deb to improve rsync

2001-11-20 Thread Paul Andreassen
Hi, I've noticed that the .deb files are archives of tar.gz files. This isn't a good format to maximise rsync's performance. If we changed to zip or similar, in which individual files are compressed separately, rsync will find more similarities in different versions and download faster. What d