David Kalnischkies (2010-10-20): > mhh, yeah, if debian-users@ can't provide help instantly: ask again > - or just wait a tiny little bit longer than 2 days. ;)
You're right; in my defence, this is in fact my second attempt. > You could also ask "upstream" - which is in this case the deity@ list. > ask.debian.net would be another option to consider next time… Thank you, I wasn't aware of that list. > > 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. I'll check it out. Would you care to tell me where to find it? "apt-cache search dak" doesn't reveal what I'm looking for (lenny/ppc). > 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. 71 .deb files in total to date; 17 different packages (for iPhone), updated rather frequenty. My server is a NAS system running Lighty, on a DSL line; my goal to reduce both the load on the server and the line. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9925 2010-10-18 10:50 Contents.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155836 2010-10-18 10:50 Contents -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9120 2010-10-18 10:50 Contents.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14579 2010-10-19 14:12 Packages.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13465 2010-10-19 14:12 Packages.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74043 2010-10-19 14:12 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1736704 2010-10-19 14:12 packages-cydia.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1089 2010-10-19 14:12 Release -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 2010-10-19 14:13 Release.gpg -André -- L'art d'ennuyer est de tout dire. [Voltaire] -- 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/20101020124717.ga45...@fuchs
