On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:45:39AM +0200, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi, > Six month ago, I used testing, and used to learn packaging for Debian on > a testing box. > I have been out for some mounths. > I'am back now, and I see the way apt repo are dona is sloghtly > different. > Something "differential" has been introduced: "apt-get update" downloads > some kind of patches whose name contains date. > Would you please indicate me a link that explain the change that have > been made? > Among packaging, I need to know how repos are made... > Thank you. Hi Mihamina, you can continue to produce Debian repositories in the same way. These new features were added to help reduce the size of Packages files over a modem. They implement some kind of 'diff' between the current file and some previous version. This feature is optional and is not required. for more help, join the debian-mentors list. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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