Request for comments: a "debian-daemon" project Using FTP for a while to keep my system up-to-date, I see several things that, I think, cannot be done easily:
* Data transfer minimization (with rsync-like algorithm) where that could be applied. That does not include, eg, compiled binaries, but would fit well for sources packages in tar format (gzipped version could still be used for full downloads), Packages files (same comment), probably most packages in binary-all (if we can have a non-compressed tarfile inside the deb file); * Getting changes between installed and available versions, to allow users to download a new version only when they have use of it; ...and probably more that I don't remember right now; please be free to add to this list... That could probably be done by extending the FTP protocol (or another one, like FSP, but I don't know much about that one) to support rsync algorithm. Further more, such a daemon could be made to fully monitor the distribution-site: the site-mainainer would just "send" (maybe locally :-) the new files to the daemon, which would automagically ensure site coherence, including keeping Packages (and other) files up-to-date, removing old versions from experimental when a newer has come into unstable (noone told be I was wrong here, so I persist ;-), maybe automatically find out between what versions the rsync algorithm would be profitable, etc. -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
