Re: [Apt-proxy-users] New distribution & Package.gz file

[Chris H. <chr...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:52:21PM +1000, Roland Gerlach wrote:
> The first fetch of the main/Packages.gz file appears to have downloaded the
> 7M Packages file to generate the Packages.gz file.  I appreciate that
> apt-proxy rsync's the Packages file to transfer only differences but could
> apt-proxy detect that the Packages file is missing and download the
> Packages.gz file (only 2M) and gunzip it to create the initial Packages
> file?

When downloading the uncompressed packages file, apt-proxy uses this
command:

  $RSYNC_CMD -z $TMP_URL $TMP_FILE

The -z tells rsync to compress the on-the-wire transfer, so you should not
have seen 7MB be transferred.  Did you measure how much traffic was
generated?

Chris