Re: Binary diffs and the apt system
Goswin Brederlow writes:
> 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).
Note there is a patch available for gzip which is `rsync friendly'. It
should hopefully get into woody soon.
Chris.
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