Re: dpkg-scanpackages [was Re: General debian questions]

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:59:04AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:40:45AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Use dpkg-scanpackages to update the Packages file (and remember to gzip > > it, so you've got Packages.gz). > > When you say "update" the Packages, are you implying that you c

dpkg-scanpackages [was Re: General debian questions]

2003-12-16 Thread Nunya
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:40:45AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Use dpkg-scanpackages to update the Packages file (and remember to gzip > it, so you've got Packages.gz). When you say "update" the Packages, are you implying that you can do an incremental update of an existing Packages file? I use

Re: General debian questions

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:44:02AM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > Is their any fundamental reason why apt-get could not use rsync in > addition to it's current method? > This should be inherently faster.?? It would impose too much load on the servers; rsync is a bit of a pain that way. It's been pro