On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:03:27PM -0500, Simon Law wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:47:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > please, please treat this machine politely. it's my workstation and > > i have no qualms with turning off slapd if it's getting in the > > way :) > > If you're using OpenLDAP, there is no way that this could ever be fast. sounds like you have some experience with openldap too :) seriously though, i think it could in many situations... as it stands now, apt has to refetch the Sources/Packages.gz files from every source listed in sources.list. now, if the apt method kept a timestamp of the last successful update, it could send as part of the ldap query filter something like '(debTimeStamp>$lasttime)'. this would make keeping debian up to date over dialup a much easier experience i imagine. the one major problem with using a method like this is that apt is designed with the assumption that it fetches the list of packages in the same manner that it fetches the packages themselves. i think this could be worked around, but it's the only real stumbling block i see to building an ldap protocol method into apt. sean --
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