Re: Idea to prevent those long package listing downloads...

1999-11-16 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think rsync would work well for this. No need to keep old versions > arround for diffing. This would be cool; it's a shame that rsync doesn't have a library that encapsulates its functionality -- if it did, it would seem simple to just bang that into apt-get... -Mile

Re: Idea to prevent those long package listing downloads...

1999-11-15 Thread robbie
Hi I think rsync would work well for this. No need to keep old versions arround for diffing. Rsync might also work for packages, if they were uncompressed. However that would either double the size of the archive, or load the servers too much. It might also be difficult to get all mirrors to provi

Re: Idea to prevent those long package listing downloads...

1999-11-15 Thread Kevin Heath
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 11:40:19PM +, Russell G. Howe wrote: > I had this idea when I was sitting there watching 768K of package > listing for unstable trickle down my flaky, slow modem connection > at about 1K/sec, paying my 1 pence per minute to British Telecom > when I thought "Why can't I j

Idea to prevent those long package listing downloads with apt-get (maybe this should be on debian-devel...)

1999-11-14 Thread Russell G. Howe
Maybe I should have posted to debian-devel, but I'm not subscribed and I get enough mail as it is. I had this idea when I was sitting there watching 768K of package listing for unstable trickle down my flaky, slow modem connection at about 1K/sec, paying my 1 pence per minute to British Telecom w