Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net> writes:

> 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/

The method isn't integrated into the DAK nor into apt.

You can download the scripts to update Packages per diff from

http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/apt-qupdate
http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/untiffani

The ed scripts itself are provided by Andreas Barth currently on
(defined in apt-qupdate)

http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian

MfG
        Goswin