Sorry, I am entering the thread late, so forgive if some of this has already been said... Peter Eisentraut said: > There are more than 30 sections; this would make sources.list > completely unmaintainable. What if the 30 sections would be automatically pulled with a single sources.list, but they'd be separate files? With FTP or HTTP, this would allow APT to only obtain the files with changes, not the whole Packages file each time a byte changes. Diff would be nice but require a whole lot of infrastructure changes. We'd have to keep a diff for every day... rsync would be the best, but it's too heavy on the servers. An alternative might be an incremental format which reads in a whole directory and condenses the changes into a single file. If anyone is familiar with the way VMware handles the configuration file in /etc, this is what I am talking about. Changes are appended to the end of new files and the client then simply parses the directory from A to Z and merges all the instructions. A change line might be: postfix Version 2.1.4-4 Size 1234 MD5sum 1234... Filename ... to change just those fields and leave the rest intact, if it has not changed. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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