On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:35:40PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:46:55PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > > Now if you feel advantous, repack as many package on the source mirror > > with gzip --rsyncable and notice the difference. > > Exactly how is this going to help? I can only see this as being > useful when the files change. Files should never change. You > get a completly new file. Unless you can somehow tell to use the > old file as base, this is not going to help.
He's talking about the Packages etc. files. Those do change. -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune