Re: PROPOSAL - REFORMULATED - Create alternative Packages files for each section
|| On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:34:33 +0200
|| Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote:
mk> Am 2004-08-26 23:27:10, schrieb Otavio Salvador:
>> Other possibility and better, IMHO, is provide alternative Packages
>> files but at first time all will be get and then only which had
>> changes.
mk> As I have written in an other messages before...
mk> Better is, to make a TWO-Weekly Packages(.gz)
mk> and then the next 13 days a daily patch...
mk> But I think, Spliting up the Packages(.gz) is
mk> only interesting for TESTING and UNSTABLE and
mk> maybe security.d.o
>> This can solve the dependencies problems and the processing time can
>> be smaller since you can process only the changed packages file.
>>
>> What all thinks about?
mk> And what do you think about my idea ?
Will reduze a lot the download time but the processing time will not
change. A split file with affected packages only is better since we
can manage apt-cache to update only this.
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