Apt-get
I'm not sure if this is the right place but I'd like to make a feature
request for Apt-get. Currently when there is a new version of a package, it
downloads the entire package archive. However many times most of the package
hasn't changed, especially with minor updates to projects with large amounts
of data files. Could you add a feature to apt-get so it only has to download
new or changed data? I'm not sure how hard this would be, but it would have
to not require the apt-get cache to be intact. The database of file locations
should be enough. This would likely require a new protocol of some sort I
think. Also if a new protocol is used, could you please create a
proxy(transparent even?) that could be used to cache updates for a LAN? The
proxy would like require the caching of complete packages, but if only
changes were transferred from the internet this would be great.
A feature like this would likely cut my megabytes downloaded by 50%. Thanks,
David
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