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Re: Packages.gz revamp



On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:52:08AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> Why is this needed?  apt-get will send an If-Modified-Since: header to
> a HTTP server, so all it needs to do is hit each Packages file in turn...

If the woody main archive has changed only by a package, I still have to
download nearly 1 meg with my modem.

> (Probably a smarter approach is to rsync the uncompressed Packages
> files; it's about the only thing rsync is good for with a compressed
> archive like Debian's.)

This would be ideal, I guess.

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