Re: big Packages.gz file
>>>>> "sluncho" == sluncho <sluncho@mirizma.org> writes:
sluncho> How hard would it be to make daily diffs of the Package
sluncho> file? Most people running unstable update every other day
sluncho> and this will require downloading and applying only a
sluncho> couple of diff files.
sluncho> The whole process can be easily automated.
Sounds remarkably like the process (weekly not daily though) to
distribute Fidonet nodelist diffs. Also similar to kernel diffs, I
guess to.
Seems a good idea to me (until better solutions like rproxy are better
implemented), but you have to be careful not to get apply diffs in the
wrong order.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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