Re: magazine packagine (was Re: Bug#181860: ITP: phrack-issueXX -- Phrack Magazine Issues)

[Michael Schuerig <schuerig@acm.org>]

Kevin Rosenberg wrote:

> Joey Hess wrote:
>> Me too. I think it makes sense to have separate packages for the last
>> n editions, where n is some reasonable number like 2 or 3 (sometimes
>> we get behind in our magazine reading). But after that, why not just
>> one big package for all the back issues, if they must be packaged?
> 
> That's an interesting thought. One disadvantage of a archive of issues
> is that it would have to be redownloaded everytime an a new issue is
> added to the archive. Though separate issues do increase the size of
> the Packages file, they reduce the need to download updates to
> multi-megabyte archives.

You could keep two archives, one for the current (yearly?) volume,
another for all back-volumes. The back-volume package would be big, but
stable; the current-volume package would change often, but would be
small.

Michael

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