Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> cum veritate scripsit:
> Are there any indications on how many days worth of diffs should be
> kept around? Two? A week's worth? A month's worth?
It really depends.
In my method, the Packages file for each day needs to be kept
at the server, i.e. 1.6 MB per day of backlog to diff against.
1 week = ~10MB
1 month = ~40MB
And doing this all for all arches, it gains
1 week = ~120 MB
1 month = ~500 MB
So, the server (possibly ftp-master) needs to carry around
500MB worth of Packages file to create the diff if we want to
make a diff for a month's worth of data.
Shifting that much data would probably be an overkill
considering that many people do update their packages file
more than once a week (or in fact run a cron job of doing
apt-get update).
The advantage of using md5sum, is that
it doesn't depend on meta-information like "date", which might be
screwed at some mirror for some reason.
regards,
junichi
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