On 9 Mar 2000 12:56:29 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > tom rothamel is working on a project called debdiff that works towards the > same goal. please read his announcment thread, which is archived at > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0002/msg00391.htm.
The code associated with this is now available at <http://onegeek.org/~tom/software/ddiff/>, for what it's worth. I do happen to think that rsync is an inefficent solution to archive mirroring, however, as it seems it would need to scan and checksum a huge number of files every time it runs. Probably a better way would be to have dinstall[1] generate a list of changes it makes to the archive, and have people mirroring the archive use those lists to figure out what needs to be downloaded. This would also have the benefit of making it easy to ensure that archive mirrors are always in a consistent state. (ie, Packages.gz is updated after new packages have been downloaded, but before old packages are deleted.) [1] At least, I think that's it. I'm not really sure how things work on the Debian end... I probably won't know for sure until hell freezes over^W^W^Wnew-maintainer reopens. -- Tom Rothamel --------- http://onegeek.org/~tom/ ---------- Using GNU/Linux The Moon is Waxing Crescent (16% of Full)
