Re: [Apt-proxy-users] A sources.list to apt-proxy.conf conversion problem.

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

Thanks Craig for answering this; just a quick comment:

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:08:42AM +1200, Nigel Walters wrote:
> I thought rsync would be helpful mainly for subsequent=20
> OpenOffice downloads.

Unfortunately, rsync doesn't deal efficiently with compressed files such as
=2Edebs, and you get worse performance overall with rsync - an rsynced .deb=
 is
typically reported as 0.99-1.1 times the original size, i.e. you get almost
no saving and often it is actually worse due to the protocol overhead, and
the load it puts on the rsync server.  It is only worth using rsync for
updating the large uncompressed Packages files found on the debian archvies;
everything else is unnecessary, and puts unwanted load on the server.  I
changed the default apt-proxy.conf to reflect this in my last upload.

The default was rsync becuase that was the only protocol apt-proxy
origianally supported, and I did not want to change the default immeditately
until the new http/ftp support had been proved to be reliable first.

You can see the rsync stats by setting KEEP_STATS or DEBUG in
apt-proxy.conf, if you would like to test it out yourself.

Chris