Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-16 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:09:07AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: [snip] > > I think the only sensible and simple thing to do is to provide a zsync > > file for the Contents files (zsync can 'look into' gz to rsync just > > the changes). Then every user can use a cron job to zsync the file to > > his

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> I think the only sensible and simple thing to do is to provide a zsync >> file for the Contents files (zsync can 'look into' gz to rsync just >> the changes). Then every user can use a cron job to zsync the file to >> hi

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:12:05AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could we have a package which provides /usr/share/.../Contents.gz? > > Not sure that share/ is the right place. And as Matt said, versioning > > is a potential problem. But lin

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-15 Thread David Mandelberg
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think the only sensible and simple thing to do is to provide a zsync > file for the Contents files (zsync can 'look into' gz to rsync just > the changes). Then every user can use a cron job to zsync the file to > his system on a daily, weekly, monthly, whatever basis

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could we have a package which provides /usr/share/.../Contents.gz? > Not sure that share/ is the right place. And as Matt said, versioning > is a potential problem. But lintian (and others: apt-file) could > depend on this package (say, debian-dist-con

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
Could we have a package which provides /usr/share/.../Contents.gz? Not sure that share/ is the right place. And as Matt said, versioning is a potential problem. But lintian (and others: apt-file) could depend on this package (say, debian-dist-contents). Justin