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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for an alternative portage tree sync method
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:03:28
Message-Id: 6c375f1155334d13f378e8c9130bb710@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for an alternative portage tree sync method by Simon Stelling
1 On Mar 22, 2005, at 3:03 pm, Simon Stelling wrote:
2 >
3 > And where is the benefit beside mirrors don't need to have a running
4 > rsync? If it uses exactly the same algorithm for finding the
5 > differences, users won't download less.
6
7 As I read the article, it's more firewall-friendly, allowing fetches
8 over port 80.
9
10 Stroller.
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