On 7 Jan 2001, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > gzip --rsyncable, aloready implemented, ask Rusty Russell. > > I have a copy of Rusty's patch, but have not applied it since I don't like > diverging Debian packages from upstream this way. Wichert, have you or Rusty > or anyone taken this up with the gzip upstream maintainer?
Has anyone checked out what the size hit is, and how well ryncing debs like this performs in actual use? A study using xdelta on rsyncable debs would be quite nice to see. I recall that the results of xdelta on the uncompressed data were not that great. Jason
