Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think the only sensible and simple thing to do is to provide a zsync > file for the Contents files (zsync can 'look into' gz to rsync just > the changes). Then every user can use a cron job to zsync the file to > his system on a daily, weekly, monthly, whatever basis. zsync uses the > http protocol so any http mirror carrying the Contents files will do > as source. What about creating a package to do this automatically (using debconf to ask how often to run)? It could be a really small package (just one shell script and docs) and lintian et al could depend/recommend/suggest it. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/IT$/M/S/O/U dpu s+:++ !a C++$>C+++$ UB+++>++++$L++++$*-- P+>++$ L+++(++++)$ E-(---) W+++>$ N(+) o? K- w--(---) O? M V? PS++@ PE-@ Y+@ PGP++(+++)>$ t? 5? X? R tv--(-) b++(+++)@ DI? D? G e->++++ h* r? z* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ David Mandelberg mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org
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