On Mi, 20 oct 10, 19:56:46, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [Moved back to debian-user] This time for real... > 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 -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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