Bug#128818: apt-rsync is great

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com>]

Another option would be to provide xproxy-based access to the Packages
file.  Xproxy server stores file history in an xdfs volume (see
xdelta2), and only sends the delta to an xproxy client, to which one
can connect as an HTTP 1.1 proxy.

xproxy binary is in the xdelta2 package currently in sid.  I have
split in into package xproxy-http, with startup scripts, docs, etc,
but the splitted package still awaits in queue/new.

Note that AFAIK it still lacks purging of very-old versions from the
xdfs volume, this has to be done manually.

HTH,
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Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com>                 http://www.alcove.com/
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Debian developer (dirson@debian.org)                        Développeur Debian


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