Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.7
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
On my Debian 'unstable', with a 5K/sec modem for internet,
sometimes an upgrade/update cycle lists many big files with
no currently available debdeltas, which means 400M or so to
download, a 23 hour upgrade (ideal case).
It would be useful if users with low bandwidth could
run an update/upgrade cycle that offered available
debdeltas only. The CLI interface might look like:
# update deltas
cupt debdelta-update
...
# upgrade with only deltas
cupt debdelta-only-upgrade
...
Benefits include: In some cases it would make systems safer
faster, as would be the case when a needed upgrade has deltas
available, which would otherwise wait behind a 23 hour queue.
(i.e. a 23 hour window of vulnerability.) It needn't slow anything
down, since the user could always run 'debdelta-only-upgrade' first,
then opt for a standard upgrade. Also saves user time, electricity,
phone bandwidth, and server bandwidth.
I'm not sure if the debdelta infrastructure as of 7/2012 provides an
easy way to do this. If not, something extra would need to be
added to debdelta to make it work.
HTH...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cupt depends on:
ii libboost-program-options1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1
ii libc6 2.13-34
ii libcupt2-0 2.5.7
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-2
ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-2
cupt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages cupt suggests:
ii libreadline6 6.2-8
ii sensible-utils 0.0.7
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