On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:56:21PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > 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. Or you could just use something like rsync. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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