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

apt with index diff support

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Vogt
Dear Friends, the idea to have some sort of incremental update support for the archive index files (Packages,Sources) in the archive and in apt has been around for some time now [1]. Anthony Towns analysed the problem in [2] and came up with the idea to use ed-style diffs to solve the problem. A