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FS#42704 - {repo} Enable zsync support on repositories

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Mateus Rodrigues Costa (CharlesAtum) - Friday, 07 November 2014, 15:26 GMT
Last edited by Johannes Löthberg (demize) - Tuesday, 24 December 2019, 21:44 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Mirrors
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: Enable zsync support on repositories. This would add another way to download files and might be beneficial to users with low speed, monthly-limited data usage or mobile data internet connections.

Related to  FS#5549 , but just for implementing the server side .zsync files.

More info about zsync: http://zsync.moria.org.uk/
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Closed by  Johannes Löthberg (demize)
Tuesday, 24 December 2019, 21:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  pacman doesn't support this, and mirrors should not be using cellular connections. Any mirror who wanted to could of course support whatever protocol they wish, but there seems to be no reason to add this as part of our infrastructure.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Sunday, 06 January 2019, 11:20 GMT
We have support for delta packages, how much different would this be? Note that a high update rate kinda defeats using Arch on a slow connection.

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