Re: Proposal for new Security subsection for non-US
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:46:27AM +0300, Pavel Minev Penev wrote:
> I would think of using xdelta, or similar to distrubute changes as
> binary patches, since there could be a real server overload when a few
> hundred administrators and mere people start downloading the brand new
> deifinitions simultaneously. What about a public rsync? Maybe a usual
> announce mailing list?
>
> In my oppinion, a package created ten minutes ago can't go into stable.
> Even if it is a simple virus/worm/blacklist/... definion. Bugs can crawl
> anywhere. Therefore, I don't think the proposed type of packages can
> ever be a part of stable. I guess it should be like: use unstable for
> just those packages, and stable for all the rest.
Well, woody will be the first stable release to support pinning, and this
looks like an excellent application for it. Still, unless you can put
rsync:// URLs in sources.list, it won't solve everything. rsync or
something similar would save a lot of traffic for this kind of thing.
Unfortunately, it's probably too late to integrate rsync into the whole apt
system, so it can rsync stuff in /var/cache/apt/archives.
(possible mechanism: rename or copy the .deb with the same package name but
an older version to the newest version, then run rsync. For Packages.gz,
you don't need to rename anything before running rsync. rsync for the
Packages file would make apt-get update a _lot_ faster.)
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