FS#5549 - Zsync for downloading packages
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Pacman
Opened by Maxim Grechkin (ssmaxss) - Sunday, 08 October 2006, 11:38 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 08 November 2006, 23:23 GMT
Opened by Maxim Grechkin (ssmaxss) - Sunday, 08 October 2006, 11:38 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 08 November 2006, 23:23 GMT
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Details
As arch packages are plain tar.gz they can be easily
distributed using zsync. Zsync allows to downloaded only
changes to package instead of whole package (it can save up
to 80% of download). Are there any projects to make pacman
use zsync for downloading packages? To setup this on server
side we need only to create small (several Kbytes) .zsync
files for each tar.gz. On client side it could be done
modifing fetch command for pacman. Is it interesting for
anyone, and are there any chances that .zsync repository
will be set up on arch mirror?
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Closed by Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Wednesday, 08 November 2006, 23:36 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
Additional comments about closing: See comment.
Wednesday, 08 November 2006, 23:36 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
Additional comments about closing: See comment.
I'm sure this will not be implemented in near future, but maybe there will be such feature eventually.
It may be plausible to support this on the server side, so that users can zsync repos or use the XferCommand themselves, but this will not be part of pacman.
Deferred until later.