Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> For some time now (as in around a year) you can update your Packages
> files by downloading only the differences (ed script format diff) to
> your local file. Using that daily updates go down from the full 3+MB
> (2+Mb with bz2 now) to ~10K per day.
Really? I don't see it documented in, e.g. the sources.list manpage.
Google finds only an open bug requesting the feature. Nor do I find any
diffs at, e.g.,
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/
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