Re: Archive Restructuring - Package Pool
On 31 Jul 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> debian@pny-fmail.webquest.com (Bill Mitchell) wrote on 31.07.98 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980731121323.171D-100000@debian>:
>
> > Packages file from the mirrors. Users are not currently required to
> > download a new Packages file in the absence of an up to date local copy
> > (and, IMO, should not be required to do so). This seems to imply that the
>
> They are if they want dselect to let them select the new packages. Or apt.
> Only bare dpkg can handle bare packages.
I am located in a remote corner of the world, and commonly see transfer
rates on the order of 300 bytes/sec on large files. That is about a
megabyte per hour. Hamm's Packages.gz file is about 330Kb, or about 20
minutes of download time at 300 bytes/sec. My internet connect charges
are about $1.50 per hour once I exceed a fixed hours/month limit.
I'm not contending that my situation is typical, but neither do I believe
that it is unique. I have seen others mention slow/expensive downloads
in debian-devel from time to time.
I commonly do mass upgrades from CD. From time to time I use ftp to
download individual packages, which I install with dpkg. Hiding pathnames
to packages inside the Packages file would be a problem for me.
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