Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:56:21PM -0500, sean finney wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:03:27PM -0500, Simon Law wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:47:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
>> > > please, please treat this machine politely. it's my workstation and
>> > > i have no qualms with turning off slapd if it's getting in the
>> > > way :)
>> >
>> > If you're using OpenLDAP, there is no way that this could ever be fast.
>>
>> sounds like you have some experience with openldap too :)
>>
>> seriously though, i think it could in many situations... as it stands now,
>> apt has to refetch the Sources/Packages.gz files from every source
>> listed in sources.list.
>>
>> now, if the apt method kept a timestamp of the last successful update,
>> it could send as part of the ldap query filter something like
>> '(debTimeStamp>$lasttime)'. this would make keeping debian up to
>> date over dialup a much easier experience i imagine.
>
> Or you could just use something like rsync.
Or the date sorted packages files or the diff file method, both more
efficient than rsync and without server load and both can download
compressed data (see other threads about this).
MfG
Goswin
