[Moved back to debian-user] On Mi, 20 oct 10, 14:47:17, André Berger wrote: > David Kalnischkies (2010-10-20): > > > mhh, yeah, if debian-users@ can't provide help instantly: ask again > > - or just wait a tiny little bit longer than 2 days. ;) > > You're right; in my defence, this is in fact my second attempt. > > > You could also ask "upstream" - which is in this case the deity@ list. > > ask.debian.net would be another option to consider next time… > > Thank you, I wasn't aware of that list. > > > > On my Lenny system, I maintain a small Debian archive. It's updated > > > with "apt-ftparchive generate". I would like to add a > > > Packages/DiffIndex file, but can't find out how to accomplish that. > > > > apt-ftparchive can't generate the patch files as well as the needed Indexes. > > This is a feature of dak and/or the other more advanced archivebuilders. > > > > Patches are obviously welcomed to change that (as well as someone who > > takes care of apt-ftparchive as a whole btw) -- in the meantime you > > can generate them "by hand" maybe inspired by how dak and co does it > > (for dak you can see it in dak/generate_index_diffs.py i think) or > > you use one of the "bigger" tools to maintain your archive directly. > > I'll check it out. Would you care to tell me where to find it? > "apt-cache search dak" doesn't reveal what I'm looking for > (lenny/ppc). Because there is no package for it. dak is very specific to the Debian infrastructure and it doesn't make sense to package it in its current state. The code is available in some VCS though. Search the archives of debian-devel-announce for the last bits from the ftpteam/ftpmasters, should be mentioned in there. > > But, you say that it is "small", so i am tempted to say that pdiffs aren't > > worthed the hassle. They can be useful if the Packages file is really big and > > constantly updated, but if it is small… pdiffs have a considerable overhead > > compared to a complete file download. > > 71 .deb files in total to date; 17 different packages (for iPhone), > updated rather frequenty. My server is a NAS system running > Lighty, on a DSL line; my goal to reduce both the load on the > server and the line. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9925 2010-10-18 10:50 Contents.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155836 2010-10-18 10:50 Contents > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9120 2010-10-18 10:50 Contents.bz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14579 2010-10-19 14:12 Packages.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13465 2010-10-19 14:12 Packages.bz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74043 2010-10-19 14:12 Packages > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1736704 2010-10-19 14:12 packages-cydia.db > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1089 2010-10-19 14:12 Release > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 2010-10-19 14:13 Release.gpg The Packages file is 73kB uncompressed, how slow is your line anyway? And how often do you update it and how big do you expect the Pdiffs to be? My impression is that it doesn't make sense to bother about this. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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