Using zsync for .deb downloads: initial benchmark results

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:19:31 +0300 Lars Wirzenius <lars at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Because most of the packages using lzma are OpenOffice.org related,
>  it is probably not realistic to make them use gzip --rsyncable due
>  to CD size limits, but it might be possible to use them for updates
>  that don't get put into CDs.

Starting in Karmic we are also using lzma extensively in the KDE packages.  
KDE presents the same issues wrt CD sizes as OOo.

Scott K