Dan Jacobson wrote: > Say, would the least bandwidth package updating system be one where > the user just does > rsync mirror:Packages /var/... > then for $(each package that needs updating) > rsync mirror:uncompressed_package /var/... > Hmmm, but then it's not usually just documents that have changed... > OK, then how does ubuntu do it? Well then more time is spent > compiling. Anyway, just wondering if one put the highest priority on > bandwidth... > Hmmm, I suppose no way you look at it, you're not going to be able to > track sid with just a modem without extra $. > >
I don't know if it is in Sid yet, but I think that new version of dpkg was recently uploaded to experimental that defaults to using rsync for updating the package database at least. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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