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
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I think the ideal solution would be to have a caching proxy based on
> > rsync to communicate with the upstream mirror, and http (or a new
> > apt method) to communicate with apt.
>
> I was actually think
Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think the ideal solution would be to have a caching proxy based on
> rsync to communicate with the upstream mirror, and http (or a new
> apt method) to communicate with apt.
I was actually thinking the other day about why couldn't apt support
rsync://
On 19 May 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Its rather difficult to split package into the right amount of
> chunks. Each chunk has some overhead for download and state
> information (/var/lib/dpcg gets big). I think the idea of bindiffs
> would be far more usefull.
I wouldn't go as far. I'm not thi
Gabor Fleischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> some days ago someone had a question about cutting a package into
> parts. The answer was yes, and one of the reasons: it can decrease
> the downloads which is espetially good if someone has modem...
>
> I was thinking about this
In foo.debian-devel, you wrote:
> I was browsing the debian-devel archives recently and came across an old
> thread on distributing binary diffs of packages. Did anything ever come out
> of
> that? It looked pretty intriguing but even the program mentioned (xdiff)
> seems
> to have vanished f
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 02:51:20AM +0200, Gabor Fleischer was heard to say:
> Hi everyone,
>
[snip]
>
> There could be a value in the control file like: Last-changed-version or
> something similar. apt/dselect could decide from this wether it
> needs to download
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 02:51:20AM +0200, Gabor Fleischer wrote:
> I was thinking about this, and there's one thing which is not the
> best it could be, I think: Let's see libc, and the packages that
> are compiled from the same source, for example locales.
[...]
>
> There could be a value in the
Hi everyone,
some days ago someone had a question about cutting a package into
parts. The answer was yes, and one of the reasons: it can decrease
the downloads which is espetially good if someone has modem...
I was thinking about this, and there's one thing which is not the
best it could be,
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