On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:55:17PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > > I'd suggest using diffs, as this brings the best results and is the > > > > [diffs for Packages files that is] > > > > > wooo!!! > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~dancer/Packages-for-main-i386/ > > > > > > > > > # Time for suggesting is up, please implement. > > > > Indeed, it appears it has been implemented more than once. > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg01303.html > > > > (I use apt-pupdate all the time now, it works for me (tm)) > > > Sorry, diffs are simply silly! Use rsync with the uncompressed Packages > file and diffs aren't necessary. Or use a packer which doesn't hinder > rsync from saving (gzip --rsyncable). This isn't server friendly. > If you really care about bandwide, build a local mirror with my download > script (option -A) and see that apt accesses the local mirror first when > updating. I dare to assert that this is currently by far the best > solution for saving bandwide. And how does that save bandwide if you have only one computer downloading packages? With multiple computers it does, I use apt-proxy for this. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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