Bug#128818: status update
Dear Friends,
here is another update on the status of this bug. The current version
in michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--pdiff--0 [1] works well for my
little tests so far. I put some packages (build against current sid) at:
deb http://people.debian.org/~mvo/apt/pdiffs /
It's build with a new soname. I don't actually think that this is
needed, I don't think the patch breaks the ABI. But the URL-Remap
stuff will probably break without (so it's not needed in the final
version).
I use the following line in my sources.list to test the diff apply
code:
deb http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/ sid main contrib
You can even use this url for real package installs/upgrades if you
tell apt to remap that url to the archive url:
apt-get -o APT::URL-Remap::http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/=http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ dist-upgrade
This "feature" is only added for testing the pdiff stuff until it's
implemented somewhere officially and will go away once it's no longer
needed. It also still displays the non-remapped url in the gui but
connects to the remapped version (I haven't bothered yet).
It still gives some funny output when it calculates the transfer
speed, but otherwise the output of the fetcher looks mostly correct
now.
Cheers,
Michael
[1] baz archive is at http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/arch/ubuntu
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