Re: apt with index diff support

2005-10-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Goswin von Brederlow: > Doesn't the 'If-Range: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:18:20 GMT' mean the proxy > should query upstream? Also what is the time to live on the reply? And > shouldn't the proxy always query for an update if the TTL is gone? Indeed, I should have looked at the ngrep output more closel

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-10-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > PS: Is the index file listed in Release? Quoting http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release [...] 41c3cd8cf26c2eba317c37dfe9d0d3bf 2761295 main/binary-alpha/Packages.bz2 18680c3a635a695e01f69166daef4148 2177 main/binary-alpha/Pack

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-10-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Michael Vogt: > >> When fully supported by the archive, the diff support will be >> completely transparent, no changes on your side necessary. > > When downloading the Index file, APT does not send instructions to > bypass the proxy cache: > > T 212.9

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-10-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Michael Vogt: > > > When fully supported by the archive, the diff support will be > > completely transparent, no changes on your side necessary. The index support is broken for file urls. It works the first time(ie, removing all the files in /var/li

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-10-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael Vogt: > When fully supported by the archive, the diff support will be > completely transparent, no changes on your side necessary. When downloading the Index file, APT does not send instructions to bypass the proxy cache: T 212.9.189.177:51459 -> 212.9.189.169: [AP] GET /debian/d

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Michael Vogt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050910 15:57]: > I'm happy to tell you that apt is able to use those index files > now. Robert Lemmen and I implmeneted the needed support. you might be interessted that secure-testing.debian.net has now "native" support for index diffs (even though only very sh

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:33:29PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > The remapping features seems not to work with deb-src entries. > > > (SID)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-get -o > APT::URL-Remap::http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/=h

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-19 Thread Miles Bader
Wow, it works really well!! I used to dread doing an "update" because of my slow dialup but now it's fast as could wish for (of course downloading the packages is still slow, but at least I can now quickly check to see if there are any interesting changes or not). Thank you very much for this wor

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > We believe that the code is now "good" enough for wider testing. I > have setup a repository for the patched version of apt with the pdiff > support. Just add this line to your sources.list file: > "deb http://people.debian.org/~mvo/apt/pdiffs/ /" [.

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Michael Vogt: > > Andreas Barth implemented the server side of the index diffs > > generation and has a test-repository (with only the index-files) at > > [3]. > > By the way, the secure-testing project on alioth contains a > mode

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael Vogt: > Andreas Barth implemented the server side of the index diffs > generation and has a test-repository (with only the index-files) at > [3]. By the way, the secure-testing project on alioth contains a moderately-tested pure-Python implementation of the client side (without ed/red d

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2005-09-11 Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >> Having to specify this at the commandline is messy, is there a way to put >> this in /etc/apt.conf.d/? > Please add (in e.g. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50remap): > APT::URL-Re

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-11 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi Andreas, thanks for your feedback. On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > 2. merkel does not have the actual package files [..] > Having to specify this at the commandline is messy, is there a way to put > this in

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-11 Thread Michal Politowski
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:18:57 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 10 September 2005 07:46 am, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> Having to specify this at the commandline is messy, is there a way to put > >> this in /etc/apt.conf.d/? I've tried in vain

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 10 September 2005 07:46 am, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Having to specify this at the commandline is messy, is there a way to put >> this in /etc/apt.conf.d/? I've tried in vain using >> APT::URL-Remap::http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/ >>

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Saturday 10 September 2005 07:46 am, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Having to specify this at the commandline is messy, is there a way to put > this in /etc/apt.conf.d/? I've tried in vain using > > APT::URL-Remap::http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/ > {"http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian";}; I would

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > 2. merkel does not have the actual package files > To work around (2) and make it possible to still download packages > (even with merkel as the only entry in sources.list) a hack was added > to apt called: "APT::URL-Remap::". This allows one to rema