Peter Colberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tackling full pdiff support for debmirror tonight, I took the last
> patch a bit further and implemented APT's RRED method, basically
> by translating from C++ to perl in a linear fashion.
>
> This means that debmirror is now capable of using the pdiff files to
> patch already available, out-dated Packages or Sources files and thus
> saving some bandwidth by not having to download the full (albeit
> compressed) files.
>
> I have little hope that above feature will ever be integrated, as
> debmirror currently seems to be unmaintained, and the inclusion of
> such an invasive piece of code or rather an improved variation
> thereof to support a slow and maybe volatile patch method might be
> questionable.
>
> Nevertheless, for those who would like to play with it...
>
> Regards,
> Peter
I've done some work in that direction locally already that checks the
Release file for support of pdiff files but not the actual
fetch&patch and a better Packages/Packages.gz/Package.bz2
fetch/generate mechanism that works if any of the three is available.
I will merge in your patch today, got some spare time now.
As for reimplementing the rred method: Do we realy want that? I was
thinking of depending on patch and then just firing that up.
MfG
Goswin
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