* Anthony Towns: > Some time ago (*cough* 2009), I had a play with working out how to > apply pdiffs more efficiently than apt currently does, and implemented > a proof of concept in python [0]. There weren't any replies (even a > "ooo, cool") when I posted to the deity list, so I left it at that; > though trolling google now, I see that it got mentioned on -devel [1] > not all that long ago (*cough* 2012), so apparently it did get read > after all. Not that it looks like it would've done much good, because > it seems like the script I put on the web, and the one I was actually > using are completely different to the extent that the one on the web > even has syntax errors. WTF?
I think there was also a proposal to merge the diffs on the server side, so that clients would only have to download a single diff file, as identified by the starting checksum. I've never seen a specification of the file format, so I don't know if that would be backwards-compatible. And in the past, I think the APT method API was not considered sufficiently flexible to support such merging, so that why I stopped working on the patch file merger I had. But that is purely from memory, I have trouble finding actual traces of previous discussions. -- 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/87fvp27fgh....@mid.deneb.enyo.de
