Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-07-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> For some time now (as in around a year) you can update your Packages >> files by downloading only the differences (ed script format diff) to >> your local file. Using that daily updates go down from the full 3+MB >>

Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-07-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > For some time now (as in around a year) you can update your Packages > files by downloading only the differences (ed script format diff) to > your local file. Using that daily updates go down from the full 3+MB > (2+Mb with bz2 now) to ~10K per day. Really? I don't s

Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since around last October, I've considered to make my concept for a > modern package distribution public but I wanted to wait until > Debian/sarge was released which is now the case. And since the Debconf5 > in Helsinki is just around the corner it's about t

Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-06-26 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:16:42AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > I've seen some messages about an LDAP implementation around last october > but I couldn't find them. I'm quite sure an LDAP solution is much better > than the current solution. But before implementing it, it has to be > evaluated against

Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-06-26 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > The concept is based on an LDAP server (or simiar) as a replacement for > > the Packages file and on a P2P network for package distribution (see > > http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=pkgdist.html). IMO it > > would make

Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-06-25 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > The concept is based on an LDAP server (or simiar) as a replacement for > the Packages file and on a P2P network for package distribution (see > http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=pkgdist.html). IMO it > would make a lot sen

Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-06-24 Thread Otto Wyss
Since around last October, I've considered to make my concept for a modern package distribution public but I wanted to wait until Debian/sarge was released which is now the case. And since the Debconf5 in Helsinki is just around the corner it's about the right time. The concept is based on an LDAP