Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist hi,
I am the author of the "debdelta" package. For some years I have been running an infrastructure that sets up some repositories of "deltas" that can be used by "debdelta-upgrade" to speed up upgrades and/or reduce bandwidth usage (currently for amd64 and i386, and for stable-security, testing and unstable ; TODO is stable-updates and experimental ). Currently these repositories are created by an engine in a host of mine, and then rsync-ed into www.bononia.it and are publicly available as http://www.bononia.it/debian-security-deltas http://www.bononia.it/debian-deltas and the sizes are 5GB and 15GB respectively. In the years "debdelta" has matured. It would be nice and useful if it may be offered as an official Debian service. I open this bug report as a place to start a discussion on this subject. This is a proposal, in 3 stages. 1) Create a DNS entry such as 'debdelta.debian.net' or 'debdelta.debian.org' (for a start , we may set it as CNAME to the current server , that is www.bononia.it ) 2) Set up an official public repository of deltas. I have two proposals for this, 2a) Set up a space in a www host that the Debian project administers 2b) Create a new directory "deltas" in the ftp.debian.org structure (alongside "dists" "pool" "tool" ... ) . For a start, I may keep it up-to date using my engine and rsync (or whatever tool you prefer). 3) Set up the engine that creates the deltas in a host inside Debian; not necessarily the same host as in (2) ; it has to be an host that contains the whole repository , and an additional space for keeping old versions of the debs, that are needed to create deltas (I keep ~30GB of those). Thanks for your attention so far. a. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
