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Apt & rsync



My brain just threw an idea up at me, and I figured this might be the
address to mail. :)

Could apt be made to use rsync ??

For example, if I have a package still in my package cache why couldnt apt
rsync the older .deb up to the newer version ?

I think plenty of people would be happy to trade off a bit of disk space
for much faster package upgrades.

rsync could also be used to update the packages lists.


regards


Gary Allpike
spice@spice.net.au
http://www.linux.org.au

PS.  If this has been thrashed to death somewhere else before, could some
one please point me at some information.



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