Re: Binary diffs and the apt system
Pablo Baena <pbaena@fnmail.com> writes:
> It was discussed in the list to adopt xdelta to the package system, but
> it didn't came up something working as I understand. I have something
> that seems simpler: why not to adopt xdelta to the `apt-get update`
> command, to check out if the list of files has changed and to apply the
> corresponding patch if so instead of downloading the same 800K file for
> some minimal change.
You could mirror the Packages and Sources files via rsync. That should
reduce the amount of data downloaded. (Note that I don't talk about
the compressed versions).
MfG
Goswin
Reply to: