Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt
* Brian Eaton (eaton.lists@gmail.com) [060501 16:42]:
> On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
> >* Brian Eaton (eaton.lists@gmail.com) [060501 15:51]:
> >> The only time delta packages will be a win is for upgrades where the
> >> client has the original package cached.
> >
> >If one does it right, it might be enough if the original package is
> >*installed*. And that happens quite often, e.g. even for security
> >upgrades.
> So to do this you'd rebuild the original .debs on the fly, from the
> files installed on the system? Cool! Do you know if anyone has tried
> doing this?
No, why? You could just create a diffdeb that contains only the changed
files.
Cheers,
Andi
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