Re: slowing down point releases
> FWIW, I'm working on a little utility that will do a "diff" between
> two versions of a .deb file.
>
> I'm thinking of developing a simple HTTP-based protocol that will
> use this capability to only transfer the differences between
> subsequent versions of ".deb" files. Hopefully, for people mirroring
> the Debian distribution, this would cut down the amount of data that
> must be transferred by 90% or so (just a guess). It might be
> possible to build it into a "dpkg-ftp" style Access method as well.
Do it! Please... (just a question, I ever thought that diff'ing
binary files gives very little in size gain, how did you resolved
the problem?)
Ciao.
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