++ 04/12/00 10:06 +0100 - Petr Cech: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 10:34:15PM +0100 , Tim Jansen wrote: > > Old diffs are not beneficial when the sum of the size of all stored diffs is > > over a certain limit, say 75% of the latest deb. This would still almost double > > the needed storage, but it could also reduce the required bandwidth of the > > mirrors significantly. > > of mirrors? How? Oh - you would write a mirroring utility, which whould mirror > the diff, then patch the archive. Cool. BTW how many sites would want to run > such script (in case they even know, there was going to be such a change in > the archive)? I don't know about BIG mirrors, but it will be a very useful feature for apt-proxy utility. Nidd.
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