On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 05:54:48PM -0600, David Farning wrote:
Now, in most situations very few packages have been changed.
Therefore,
between primary.xml versions few <package>...</packages> have changed
thus most of the information in primary.xml is redundant against
previous versions of primary.xml.
Why all the complication when a general-purpose algorithm, rsync,
already exists to solve this problem? Using rsync or librsync would
require no changes to the repodata...