Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

[ressu@uusikaupunki.fi (Sami Haahtinen)]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:02:15AM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> my proposal to resolve big Packages.gz is through package
> pool system.
> 
> add 36 or so new debian package, namely,
> 
> [a-zA-Z0-1]-packages-gz_date_all.deb
> 
> contents of each is quite obvious. ;-)
> and a virtual unstable-packages-gz depends on all of them. finished.
> 
> apt-get update should deal with it....

how about diffs bethween dinstall runs?..

packages-010102-010103.gz
packages-010103-010104.gz
packages.gz

apt would download the changes after the last update, and merge these to the
package file, if the file gets corrupted, it would attempt to do a full update.

This wouldn't be a big difference in the load that the master-ftp has to
handle, atleast when some 7 of these would be stored at maximum.

Regards, Sami Haahtinen

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