On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:15:21PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo was heard to say:
>
> OTOH, I wonder how much benefit binary diffs could really give. Since
> every .deb is mostly gzip compressed data, wouldn't you often need to
> retrieve the whole thing again anyway?
>
I believe in the thread I was referring to, the binary diffs were going to
be against the uncompressed versions of the packages. So if a new version
of X came out and only part of a binary changes (a minor patch was applied
for example), a diff would be made for those changes and then (I assume)
compressed. So you'd save a lot of bandwidth (I assume) which is good for
people who have modem connections. (I've been following unstable but I just
downgraded to a modem connection and I'm unsure whether I can continue to
get 3-4 megabytes of upgraded packages a day)
Daniel
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