On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:52:29PM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote: > IMHO there is no way that would ever be set up for woody, since it > involves changes in the release management. That must happen with a > new major release of Debian and be announced well in advance. no. have you read the mail from Goswin Brederlow? We only need three things: - deb use a rsync able gzip - the server make and store rsync checksum (for one fix block size) - a new aptlib (use a client site rsync) With this we have it all. This can use a normal http mirror (without config changes on the server site), can use proxies and is compatible. > In a sense Debian is doing that, but already we are having problems > that one can not just take a deb from woody and install it on potato > and expect it to work. Sure in many cases it might, but sooner or > later your potato looks more like woody because of all the necessary > dependencies when all you wanted to do was to install one package not > yet available for potato. you can use apt-get -b source XXX Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "It's a modern Unix! It's stable, superior, enriching! It's gonna get creamed." -- Richard Brandt, Upside
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