Package: apt-offline Version: 1.6.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, >From couple of years back Debian has has been using the concept of diff. when updating the index.
https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#indices_difference_files_.28diffs.29 What it basically does is calculate the delta between the index Packages.gz or whatever it is and the one installed on the system and only in case of hash sum mismatches or something it downloads a clean copy from upstream/debian.org otherwise calculates diffs which make it a much cheaper operation. Now apt-offline aims to help in the same regard and the issue hurts most of people who are in developing countries where we do not have access to fat pipes and in some cases we have to even pay for a single bit. In such scenarios if apt-offline is able to use the diff process, it would be cheaper and faster operation as well. Look forward to seeing it in a newer version of apt-offline. From what I could figure out, apt does have some support of it. Look forward to hopefully see the idea implemented in a new release. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt-offline depends on: ii apt 1.0.10.1 ii less 458-3 ii libpython2.7-stdlib [python-argparse] 2.7.10-3 ii python 2.7.9-1 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages apt-offline recommends: ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3 ii python-magic 1:5.22+15-2 ii python-soappy 0.12.22-1 apt-offline suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
