>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Couter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sam> Andrew Stribblehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Doesn't gzip have a --rsync option, or somesuch? Apparently >> Andrew Tridgell (Samba, Rsync) has a patch to do this, but I >> don't know whether he passed it onto the gzip maintainers. Sam> I like the idea of having plugins for rsync to handle Sam> different kinds of data. So the gzip plugin will decompress Sam> the data, and the rsync algorithm can work on the Sam> decompressed data. Much better. >> (Apparently he's working on a --fuzzy flag for matching rsyncs >> between, say foo-1.0.deb and foo-1.1.deb. He says it should be >> called the --debian flag.) Sam> A deb plugin would be better. :) Sounds like a good idea to me. Although don't get the two issues confused: 1. difference in filename. 2. format of file. Although, I guess in most cases the two will always be linked (eg. choosing the best filename really depends on the format, as ideally the most similar *.deb package should be used, and this means implementing debian rules for comparing versions), will this always be the case? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>