Hi André, On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:44, André Berger <andre.ber...@web.de> wrote: > [Sorry if that's the wrong group, please point me to the right one, > if appropriate. I've asked this question on debian-user before but > got no reply there.]
mhh, yeah, if debian-users@ can't provide help instantly: ask again - or just wait a tiny little bit longer than 2 days. ;) You could also ask "upstream" - which is in this case the deity@ list. ask.debian.net would be another option to consider next time… anyway: > On my Lenny system, I maintain a small Debian archive. It's updated > with "apt-ftparchive generate". I would like to add a > Packages/DiffIndex file, but can't find out how to accomplish that. apt-ftparchive can't generate the patch files as well as the needed Indexes. This is a feature of dak and/or the other more advanced archivebuilders. Patches are obviously welcomed to change that (as well as someone who takes care of apt-ftparchive as a whole btw) -- in the meantime you can generate them "by hand" maybe inspired by how dak and co does it (for dak you can see it in dak/generate_index_diffs.py i think) or you use one of the "bigger" tools to maintain your archive directly. But, you say that it is "small", so i am tempted to say that pdiffs aren't worthed the hassle. They can be useful if the Packages file is really big and constantly updated, but if it is small… pdiffs have a considerable overhead compared to a complete file download. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=cpyszwcvcvvlfnpszxousveh_satlgew2u...@mail.gmail.com
