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Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my



Heh. What part of "There's no need to Cc me" is so unclear, I wonder?

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:01:29PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Using http range transfers its possible to only download a portion of the
> packages file if its uncompressed, this method could have been used along
> with a package "index" file to vastly reduce the bandwidth used to update
> the Packages file.

It could've been, but it wasn't, so it's not an issue worth wasting time
over. What you're reinventing badly has already been done better at:

	http://ftp-master.debian.org/~bjb/pdiffs

> (sorry going away for 2 weeks, aj's witty yet insulting reply will have to
> wait, cc'ing just to provoke him :-P )

Go fuck yourself.

Cheers,
aj

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