On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jeremy Portzer (jeremyp@pobox.com) said:
If the rsync tree was built into ISOs, or some other larger archive files that could be loopback-mounted, it would be a better situation for rsync. It can then check for differences in the old and new versions and only download the differences.
Building rawhide as ISOs would a) complicate the build process b) make it more of a hassle to grab a single fix.
I was thinking of it in addition to, not in place of, the existing tree
Adding ISOs in *addition* to the files would lead to a rather dramatic increase in disk space required.
At least right now, it looks like 2 gigs for SRPMs, and 2 gigs for each architecture. I'm not sure there'd be much demand for more than i386....
later, chris