Re: PROPOSAL to sarge+1 - Split main in sub-repositories
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 11:14:36AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> It would be nice if Packages files would add new packages to the end
> instead of alphabetically and if apt-get could use rsync to download
> the Packages files (but not the debs). All the slow/never changing
> packages would drift to the top and the start of Packages (or
> Packages.gz) would remain the same and improve rsyncability.
rsync is nice and you can rsync gz-files.
(if we make rsyncable gz files. the gzip from unstable know this flag.
We must only use it...
| $ gzip -h
| gzip 1.3.5
| (2002-09-30)
| usage: gzip [-cdfhlLnNrtvV19] [-S suffix] [file ...]
| -c --stdout write on standard output, keep original files unchanged
| ....
| --rsyncable Make rsync-friendly archive
Gruss
Grisu
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