On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:50:24PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > If there were a distribution method that uses diffs, I'd recommend using the > last stable as a starting point for testing and unstable. When the diff is > larger than the package itself then it would be preferable to download the > package. There are packages in unstable which are not yet in stable. But in this case the first version could be used. > If there were servers with enough space or processing power then diffs > against all versions that they've seen would be nice. This would solve the starting problem. > If a diff download between the client's available versions and the server's > is not available then the failure case should have the client downloading > the entire package. > > > I've written a couple of scripts which are designed to create xdelta > > > diffs of debian packages. These could conceivably be used to create a > > > delta repository, vastly reducing the download amount for an > > > update/upgrade. > > > > It might be very difficult to deploy to unstable right now, because > > there is the question of "which deb package to start from ?" > > but it might be very effective in doing security-update packages. This would be nice. I am at home behind a modem line, a security update for woody would be 20 MB in size... (it's behind a firewall, so do not bother to try to hack it ... ;-)) What happened to the diffs for the Packages files? There was a discussion here some time ago. Greetings, Oliver -- Oliver Kurth mailto:kurth@leinekanal.de http://leinekanal.de
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