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